Boston Public Library, MS pb Med.205
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS3409
- Shelfmark:
- MS pb Med.205
- Title:
- Single leaf from a 15th-century gradual : in Latin].
- Catholic Church
- Place:
- Vienna]
- Date:
- ca. 1458-1465
- Language:
- lat
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 1 leaf : parchment, ill. ; 557 x 380 (363 x 280) mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Ball, John Henry
Ball, John Brayfield
Lucas, Sydney Edward
- Note:
- 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. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444744
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/wh248028r/manifest
- Holding Institution:
