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Metadata

DS ID:

DS3444

Shelfmark:

MS pb Med.99

Title:

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

Antiphonary

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

between 1450 and 1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment, ill.

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 leaf : parchment, ill. ; 575 x 403 (390 x 220) mm

Former Owner(s):

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.
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:

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Italy

Digital images

Gothic scripts

Manuscripts, Medieval

Antiphonaries (Service books)

illuminations (paintings)

Massachusetts--Boston

Institutional Record:

https://bpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C8444780

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Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library