Boston Public Library, MS pb Med.193
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS3407
- Shelfmark:
- MS pb Med.193
- Title:
- Cutting from a 13th-century antiphonal : in Latin].
- Catholic Church
- Place:
- Florence?]
- Date:
- between 1250 and 1299
- Language:
- lat
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 1 item : parchment, ill. ; 238 x 355 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Leonardo Lapiccirella (Firm)
- Note:
- Ms. leaf (bottom half of leaf).
Assumption of the Virgin, Matins.
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, 3 staves extant. Bounding and writing lines in light plummet. Square Gregorian notation on a four-line red staff.
Decoration: Verso: two-staff high historiated floriate initial [V], the Virgin and Child, with thin geometric and floriate extensions into lower margin and some leafy extensions at corners of the initial.
Binding: Housed in an oversize folder.
Origin: Written in Italy, possibly Florence, in the second half of the 13th century.
Immediate source of acquisition: Acquired in 1957 from Lapiccirella, Libreria Antiquaria, Florence.
Call number: MS pb Med.193.
Former call number: BPL MS 1619. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444742
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/3r076r005/manifest
- Holding Institution:
