Boston Public Library, MS pb Med.99
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS3444
- Shelfmark:
- MS pb Med.99
- Title:
- Single leaf from a 15th-century antiphonal : in Latin].
- Catholic Church
- Place:
- Italy]
- Date:
- between 1450 and 1499
- Language:
- lat
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 1 leaf : parchment, ill. ; 575 x 403 (390 x 220) mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Maggs Bros
- Note:
- Ms. leaf.
In Latin.
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. Square Gregorian notation on a four-line red staff, no stems.
Layout: Single column, five staves. Bounding and writings lines in blind or light plummet.
Decoration: On the verso, three-staff high [D] historiated with Christ calling Andrew and Simon, who are pulling nets full of fish from the water onto their boat. Full border of scrolling acanthus, gold balls, and a prayerful cherub sprouting from a vase; coat of arms in lower margin, unidentified.
Binding: housed in an oversized manilla folder.
Origin: Written in northern Italy in the second half of the fifteenth century.
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased by the BPL from Maggs in 1938.
Call number: MS pb Med.99.
Former call number: MS 1526. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444780
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/0r96dv47d/manifest
- Holding Institution:
