Boston Public Library, MS pb Med.222

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS3418

Shelfmark:

MS pb Med.222

Title:

Single leaf from a 14th-century antiphonal : in Latin].

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy]

Italy TGN

Date:

between 1350 and 1400

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 leaf : parchment, ill. ; 614 x 415 (445 x 285) mm

Note:

Ms. leaf.
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, 5 staves. Bounding and writing lines in light plummet. Square Gregorian notation on a four-line red staff.
Decoration: On the verso, a one-staff high historiated pale pink initial [S] in two registers: above, Christ crowned with thorns; below, the Crown of Thorns set upon an altar by two robed clerics observed by a crowned king, perhaps the French King Louis IX depositing the Crown at St-Chapelle in 1248. Floriate border of thick columns and vines terminating in acanthus.
Binding: Housed in an oversize folder.
Origin: Written in Italy in the second half of the 14th century.
Provenance: 16th-century brown arabic foliation, upper outer corner of the recto, "105"; 18th-century black arabic foliation, upper margin verso, "107".
Immediate source of acquisition: Acquired in 1958, source unrecorded; remnants of blue mounting tape at corners.
Call number: MS pb Med.222.
Former call number: BPL MS 1734.

Keyword:

Antiphonaries (Service books)

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Illumination of books and manuscripts

Manuscripts, Medieval

Digital images

Gothic scripts

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444754

IIIF Manifest:

https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/3r076r11p/manifest

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library