Boston Public Library, MS pb Med.208

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS3412

Shelfmark:

MS pb Med.208

Title:

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

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

Germany?]

Germany TGN

Date:

between 1400 and 1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 bifolium : parchment ; 443 x 336 (350 x 240) mm

Former Owner(s):

Kaiser, Minerva

Minerva Kaiser WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. bifolium.
Title devised by cataloger.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Script: Written in a gothic rotunda in black ink with red rubrics.
Layout: 1 column, 6 staves. Square Gregorian notation on a five-line red staff.
Decoration: 1-staff initials throughout in blue with red filigree, or red with blue (4 in all).
Non-consecutive bifolium, the leaves originally separated by two bifolia. Original red Roman foliation, upper outer corner each recto, "lxvi" and "lxxi."
Binding: Housed in an oversize folder.
Origin: Written in Germany (?) in the fifteenth century.
Provenance: "Brown Mus." written in modern pencil in the lower left corner of folio 66r, unidentified.
Immediate source of acquisition: Acquired in 1953 from Minerva Kaiser.
Call number: MS pb Med.208.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Manuscripts, Medieval

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=8444748

IIIF Manifest:

https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/3r076r030/manifest

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library