Boston Public Library, MS pf Med.8
Images provided by hosting institution via
Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS3449
- Shelfmark:
- MS pf Med.8
- Title:
- Antiphonal : in Latin].
- Catholic Church
- Place:
- Italy]
- Date:
- between 1325 and 1375
- Language:
- lat
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 232 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 555 x 400 (395 x 250) mm bound to 59 x 42 cm
- Former Owner(s):
- Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
In Latin.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Secundo folio: ... nostra salus quam ...
Collation: Parchment, fol. i (early paper) + 232 + i (early paper) ; 1-68 74−3 88−1 9-178 1810−1 196 20-288 2910−1; lacking fol. 51-54 (part of the third Sunday of Advent); one leaf cancelled after fol. 141, the end of the Temporale; one leaf cancelled after fol. 227 ; catchwords in lower corner, final verso of each quire. 16th-century arabic black ink foliation, skips several numbers, repeats...
Layout: Single column, 6 staves. Bounding and writing lines in blind. Square Gregorian notation on a four-line red staff, some stems, measure lines added later.
Script: Written in a gothic rotunda in black ink with red rubrics.
Decoration: One-line initials throughout alternating red with blue filigree or blue with red, or both; one-line initials throughout in thick black penwork with yellow wash; 1- to 2-staff high floriate initials throughout in gold and colors; fifteen 2- to 3-line initials in similar style, 3-line initials on fol. 2v and 21v; 1-line initials historiated with human figures on fol. 85v, 94v and...
Binding: Early/contemporary brown calf over boards, rebacked, round brass bosses on both covers, rag paper pastedowns and conjugate flyleaves at front and back (no watermarks), boss burns. A number of leaves mended with portions of a miniature (Paris?) Bible manuscript.
Origin: Written in Italy in the mid-fourteenth century, the December volume of what was presumably a larger set consisting of one volume per month. Repairs throughout from a small, two-column thirteenth-century Bible manuscript.
Provenance: Shelfmark "N" on lower edge; 18th-century label on front cover with description of contents, repeated inside front cover; contents detailed by same hand inside front cover.
Immediate source of acquisition: Sold Sotheby's London 25 February 1901, lot 321, to Sydney Cockerell for the Boston Public Library (SDBM 179313). Acquired by BPL on 29 April 1901 (SDBM 42797 and 197851).
Call number: MS pf Med.8.
Former call number: MS G.400.3. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444785
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/8s45t722k/manifest
- Holding Institution:
