Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E M 42:16B

Metadata

DS ID:

DS5301

Shelfmark:

Lewis E M 42:16B

Title:

Antiphonary

Place:

Flanders

Flanders TGN

Date:

1300-1325

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 214 x 326 mm; parchment

Note:

Initial P with the Presentation in the Temple and the Flight into Egypt in the border
This initial begins the first response of the second nocturn of Matins for the feast of the Purification of the Virgin (Feb. 2), 'Postquam impleti sunt dies purgationis Marie ...' (When the days of Mary's purification were fulfilled). Lewis E M 42:15 and 16 are from the same manuscript.
This image shows the reverse of a leaf with an historiated initial from an antiphonary. This side of the leaf, the true recto, contains the beginning of the invitatory for Matins for the feast of the Purification.
This cutting can be dated to ca. 1325.
Script: Gothic bookhand

Keyword:

Flemish (culture or style)

Historiated initials

fragments (object portions)

Antiphonaries

Liturgics

Fourteenth century

Belgium

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_m_042_016b.html

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia