Boston Public Library, MS pb Med.192

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS3406

Shelfmark:

MS pb Med.192

Title:

Single initial A from a 15th-century antiphonal : in Latin].

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

Florence?]

Florence TGN

Date:

ca. 1450

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 item : parchment, ill. ; 226 x 170 mm

Former Owner(s):

Leonardo Lapiccirella (Firm)

Leonardo Lapiccirella WIKIDATA

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, no rubrics extant.
Layout: 1 column, 3 staves extant. Bounding and writing lines in light plummet. Square Gregorian notation on a four-line red staff.
Decoration: Recto: two-staff high pink initial with acanthus clusters at corners, gold balls and filigree sprays into margin, an angel opening the empty sepulchre.
Binding: Housed in an oversize folder.
Origin: Written in Italy, possibly Florence, in the mid-fifteenth century.
Immediate source of acquisition: Acquired in 1957 from Lapiccirella, Libreria Antiquaria, Florence.
Call number: MS pb Med.192.
Former call number: BPL MS 1618.

Keyword:

Antiphonaries (Service books)

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Illumination of books and manuscripts

Manuscripts, Medieval

Digital images

Gothic scripts

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444741

IIIF Manifest:

https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/3r076q972/manifest

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library