Boston Public Library, MS pb Med.204
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS3408
- Shelfmark:
- MS pb Med.204
- Title:
- Cutting from a 14th-century antiphonal : in Latin].
- Catholic Church
- Place:
- Italy]
- Date:
- between 1300 and 1350?
- Language:
- lat
- 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:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444743
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/dz010v94x/manifest
- Holding Institution:
