Boston Public Library, MS pf Med.120
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS3446
- Shelfmark:
- MS pf Med.120
- Title:
- Antiphonal : in Latin].
- Catholic Church
- Artist:
- Don Nicholaus of the Cistercian Order
Francesco da Costello
Second Master of the San Sisto Choirbooks
- Place:
- Piacenza]
- Date:
- 1475.
- Language:
- lat
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 158 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 610 x 420 (425 x 280) mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Affaticati, Benedetto
Cavaleri, Michael
Cernuschi, Enrico
San Sisto (Church : Piacenza, Italy)
Art ancien S.A
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
In Latin.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Secundo folio: In illa die ...
Collation: Parchment, fol. 158 ; 1-128 1310−2 14-198 206 (lacking bifolium, original folios 98 and 105) ; early arabic foliation, brown ink (not scribal hand), lower right rectos; precedes losses, so reaches 160 instead of 158.
Layout: Single column, five staves. Bounding lines in red, writing lines in light plummet or in blind. Gregorian chant in square notation on a four-line staff, C or G clef indicated.
Script: Written in a gothic rotunda in black ink with red rubrics.
Decoration: More than 150 one-line initials throughout in gold leaf and ink and colors, the work of multiple artists; fifteen one-staff high historiated initials (two-staves high on fol. 1) in colors on gold within leafy initials, that on fol. 48 signed "Laus deo. D. Nicholaus Mo. Ordinis Cist. F[initus?] die XVIII Novembris 1475" (i.e. Don Nicholaus of the Cistercian Order, 18 November 1475).
Binding: Later diced leather over original wooden boards, rebacked, with original brass bosses, cornerpieces, decorative hardware, and edge guards intact.
Origin: Written at the Benedictine monastery of San Sisto in Piacenza in the year 1475. One initial, on fol. 48, is signed "Laus deo. D. Nicholaus Mo. Ordinis Cist. F[initus?] die XVIII Novembris 1475" (i.e. Don Nicholaus of the Cistercian Order, 18 November 1475). A number of miniatures have been attributed to Francesco da Castello (fol. 1, 40v, 58v, 64v, 72v). Several miniatures had been...
Provenance: In 1810, when the Napoleonic decree suppressing religious orders reached the monastery, the set of 14 choirbooks to which the present manuscript belongs were hidden in the attic of the family home of a monk named Benedetto Affaticati. They were sold by one of his descendants in 1864 to private collector Michele Cavaleri. Cavaleri sold the manuscripts to Enrico Cernuschi, who...
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchsed from L'Art Ancien in 1940.
Call number: MS pf Med.120.
Former call number: M.Cab.2.51.
Bibliography: "Library notes: exhibition of illuminated manuscripts." More Books/Boston Public Library Quarterly XV (1940): 385; Bollati, Milvia. I corali benedettini di San Sisto a Piacenza. Bologna, 2011; Filippone Overty, Joanne. "Reconstructing the Monastic Choir Books of San Sisto in Piacenza." Rivista di Storia della Miniatura 14 (2010): 151-162; Secular/Sacred: 11th-16th-Century Works... - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444782
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/xd07md46x/manifest
- Holding Institution:
