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Metadata

DS ID:

DS3408

Shelfmark:

MS pb Med.204

Title:

Cutting from a 14th-century antiphonal; in Latin

Antiphonary

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

between 1300 and 1350?

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment, ill.

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 item : parchment, ill. ; 229 x 356 mm

Note:

Ms. leaf.
In Latin.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Collation: Parchment cutting (approx. half of one folio, used as book cover).
Layout: 1 column, 4 staves extant. Bounding and writing lines in light plummet. Square Gregorian notation on a four-line red staff.
Script: Written in a Gothic rotunda in black ink with red rubrics.
Decoration: On the cleanest side, a two-staff high historiated floriate initial in colors on dark blue with white geometric shapes in the background, a crowned female saint.
Binding: Housed in an oversize manilla folder.
Origin: Written in Italy, possibly Florence, in the first half of the fourteenth century.
Provenance: Used in the eighteenth century as a cover for the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, that title written on what would have been the spine of the covered book; the dimensions of the covered book (160 x 120 mm, approx. 40 mm thick (or around 250 leaves)) suggest the editions of 1704, 1716 or 1734.
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased by the BPL in 1958.
Currently cataloged under call no. MS pb Med.204.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Italy

Digital images

Gothic scripts

Manuscripts, Medieval

Antiphonaries (Service books)

Manuscript waste

illuminations (paintings)

Massachusetts--Boston

Institutional Record:

https://bpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C8444743

IIIF Manifest:

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Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library