Boston Public Library, MS pb Med.223

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS3419

Shelfmark:

MS pb Med.223

Title:

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

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy]

Italy TGN

Date:

between 1450 and 1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 leaf : parchment, ill. ; 548 x 408 (385 x 275) 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, 6 staves. Bounding and writing lines in light plummet. Square Gregorian notation on a four-line red staff.
Decoration: On the verso, a two-staff initial in gold and colors; one-staff initial in red with blue filigree on recto.
Original red Roman foliation, center outer margin verso, "xxiii"; later arabic black foliation, center outer margin recto, "24".
Binding: Housed in an oversize folder.
Origin: Written in Italy in the second half of the 15th century.
Provenance: Acquired in 1958, source unrecorded; remnants of blue mounting tape at corners. Formerly BPL MS 1735.
Immediate source of acquisition: Acquired in 1958, source unrecorded; remnants of blue mounting tape at corners.
Call number: MS pb Med.223.
Former call number: BPL MS 1735.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Illumination of books and manuscripts

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=8444755

IIIF Manifest:

https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/3r076r14h/manifest

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library