Boston Public Library, MS pb Med.191
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS3405
- Shelfmark:
- MS pb Med.191
- Title:
- Single leaf from a 14th-century antiphonal : in Latin].
- Catholic Church
- Place:
- Bologna?]
- Date:
- ca. 1350
- Language:
- lat
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 1 leaf : parchment, ill. ; 520 x 382 (343 x 233) mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Leo S. Olschki (Firm)
- Note:
- Ms. leaf.
Title devised by cataloger.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Script: Written in a Gothic rotunda in black ink with red rubrics.
Layout: 1 column, 6 staves. Bounding and writing lines in light plummet, outer bounding line doubled. Square Gregorian notation on a four-line red staff.
Decoration: Recto: 2-staff high historiated initial F in gold and colors with thin acanthus and tendrils into margins, Archangel Michael defeating the dragon.
Binding: Housed in an oversize folder.
Origin: Written in Italy, possibly Bologna, in the mid-fourteenth century, from the same manuscript as BPL MS pb Med.171, Med.181 and Med.189.
Catchword in lower center margin of verso. 16th-century foliation upper outer corner of the recto, "70;" 17th-century arabic pagination, outer center margin of each side, "139" and "140."
Immediate source of acquisition: Acquired in 1957 from Olschki, Florence.
Call number: MS pb Med.191.
Former call number: MS 1617. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444740
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/3r076q947/manifest
- Holding Institution:
