Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E M 47:1

Metadata

DS ID:

DS5418

Shelfmark:

Lewis E M 47:1

Title:

Gradual

Place:

Padua, Italy

Padua TGN

Date:

1375-1399

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 173 x 234 mm; parchment

Note:

Initial I with Christ, a bishop saint (possibly St. Ambrose), and St. Benedict of Nursia.
This initial probably begins the Introit for the Common of the Doctors of the Church, 'In medio ecclesiae aperuit os eius ...' (In the midst of the temple he opened his mouth). The bishop seated below the head of Christ may be St. Ambrose, one of the four Doctors of the Church, and bishop of Milan from 374-397. The Benedictine saint below is likely to be St. Benedict of Nursia, the founder of...
This image shows the reverse of a cutting with an historiated initial from a gradual.
This cutting can be dated to ca. 1280.
Script: Rotunda

Keyword:

Fourteenth century

Italy

Graduals (Liturgical books)

Italian (culture or style)

fragments (object portions)

Liturgics

Historiated initials

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_m_047_001.html

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia