Boston Public Library, MS pb Med.206

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS3410

Shelfmark:

MS pb Med.206

Title:

Single leaf from a 15th-century gradual : in Latin].

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

Vienna]

Vienna TGN

Date:

ca. 1458-1465

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 leaf : parchment, ill. ; 550 x 382 (365 x 270) mm

Former Owner(s):

Ball, John Henry

Henry John Ball WIKIDATA

Ball, John Brayfield

John Brayfield Ball WIKIDATA

Lucas, Sydney Edward

Sydney Edward Lucas WIKIDATA

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. Folio number "3" written in upper right corner of recto in black ink, also in center of upper margin.
Layout: One column, five staves. Bounding and writing lines in light plummet. Square notation on a four-line red staff, C and G lines noted.
Script: Written in a rounded Gothic bookhand in black ink with red rubrics.
Decoration (primary): On recto, two-staff-high floriate initial "A" in colors on gold background, for "Aspiciens a longe," the first Responsory of the First Sunday of Advent, historiated with the Holy Hunt; the Virgin sits in an enclosed garden, a small unicorn on her lap. At the left, the Angel Gabriel, as the Huntsman, holds a spear and three leashed hounds with his left hand and brings a...
Decoration (secondary): Scrolling vines and flowers in upper and lower margins in colors, enclosing busts of Old Testament figures, each with a banderole of an Old Testament quote said to foretell the coming of Jesus, some periphrastic. Upper margin, left to right: Jeremiah: "Mortum faciet dominus super terram" (sic. Jer. 2:6); Baalam: "Orietur stella ex Jacob" (Numbers 24:18). Lower margin...
Binding: Tipped into custom matte.
Origin: Written in South Germany or Switzerland in the late fifteenth century. Two other leaves from the same manuscript are MS pb Med.205 and MS pb Med.207.
Provenance: Round pink label reading "Ball Collection 33" in upper right recto.
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased by the BPL from Maggs in 1961.
Call number: MS pb Med.206.
Bibliography: Jeffrey Hamburger, et al., eds. Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections. (Chestnut Hill: McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2016): no. 75; Sacred/Secular exhibition, no. 15; Einhorn, J. Spiritalis Unicornis (Munich, 1976), see esp. pp. 212-215, 359-375 and figs. 110-120.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Medieval

Illumination of books and manuscripts

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Digital images

Graduals (Service books)

Gothic scripts

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444746

IIIF Manifest:

https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/dz010v88s/manifest

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library