Ms. leaf. In Latin. Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis and on entry no. 75 in the Beyond Words catalog. Collation: Parchment leaf ; original roman foliation upper margin verso in alternating red and blue epigraphic capitals, "xxxv". Layout: One column, five staves. Square Gregorian notation on a four-line red staff. Script: Written in a gothic rotunda in black ink with red rubrics Decoration: On the verso, a two-staff high green foliate initial [D] in colors on gold within a light pink frame, historiated with the Annunciation to the Shepherds: in a greensward before a fortified city, three shepherds with their flock gaze upwards at an angel holding a banderole reading "Annuncio vobis gaudium magnum." Binding: Housed in an oversized manilla folder. Origin: Written in South Germany or Switzerland in the late 15th century, from the same manuscript as MS pb Med.206 and MS pb Med.207. Provenance: Ball Collection label, upper outer corner of the verso. Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased by the BPL from Maggs in 1961. Call number: MS pb Med.205. Bibliography: Jeffrey Hamburger, et al., eds. Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections. (Chestnut Hill: McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2016): no. 75.
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