Boston Public Library, MS pb Med.207

Images provided by hosting institution via

Mirador viewer

An error occurred

Technical details

TypeError: Failed to fetch

{
  "manifest": {
    "error": "TypeError: Failed to fetch",
    "id": "https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/wh248027g/manifest",
    "isFetching": false
  },
  "window": {
    "collectionIndex": 0,
    "companionAreaOpen": true,
    "companionWindowIds": [
      "cw-ca80d6b8-9a12-45d9-ba0f-72e87285205e",
      "cw-627b7979-c6bf-482f-b150-e48336083559"
    ],
    "draggingEnabled": true,
    "highlightAllAnnotations": false,
    "id": "window-002c1589-170d-4c01-a2db-9c5a9aee554d",
    "manifestId": "https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/wh248027g/manifest",
    "maximized": false,
    "rangeId": null,
    "rotation": null,
    "selectedAnnotations": {},
    "sideBarOpen": false,
    "sideBarPanel": "info",
    "thumbnailNavigationId": "cw-627b7979-c6bf-482f-b150-e48336083559",
    "loadedManifest": "https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/wh248027g/manifest",
    "canvasIndex": 2,
    "allowMaximize": false
  }
}

1 of 0

Metadata

DS ID:

DS3411

Shelfmark:

MS pb Med.207

Title:

Single leaf from a 15th-century gradual; in Latin

Gradual

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

Vienna

Vienna TGN

Date:

ca. 1458-1465

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment, ill.

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 leaf : parchment, ill. ; 548 x 358 (360 x 280) 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

Maggs Bros

Maggs Bros Ltd 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 ; original roman foliation upper margin verso in alternating red and blue epigraphic capitals, "xxxix."
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 pink floriate initial on gold within a green border, historiated with the Resurrection: Jesus, holding a cruciform staff with a hanging banner, rises from the sepulchre as the soldiers sleep on the ground. Full border of thin green vines terminating in flowers.
Binding: Housed in an oversize manilla folder.
Origin: Written in South Germany or Switzerland in the late 15th century, from the same manuscript as MS pb Med.205 and MS pb Med.206.
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.207.
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:

Digital images

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Austria

Graduals (Service books)

Manuscripts, Medieval

illuminations (paintings)

Massachusetts--Boston

Institutional Record:

https://bpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C8444747

IIIF Manifest:

https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/wh248027g/manifest

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library