Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E M 64:2

Metadata

DS ID:

DS5478

Shelfmark:

Lewis E M 64:2

Title:

Gradual

Place:

Regensburg, Germany

Regensburg TGN

Date:

1425-1450

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 355 x 520 mm; parchment

Note:

Initial B with the Trinity
Lewis E M 64:2 and E M 64:13 are sister leaves. A fourth leaf from the same manuscript is in Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Art Museum, 30.35. It can be dated to ca. 1435.
This initial begins the Introit for Mass on Trinity Sunday, 'Benedicta sit sancta trinitas' (Blessed be the Holy Trinity).
This image shows the reverse of a cutting with an historiated initial from a gradual.
Script: Liturgical bookhand

Keyword:

Fifteenth century

Graduals (Liturgical books)

German (culture, style, period)

fragments (object portions)

Liturgics

Germany

Historiated initials

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_m_064_002.html

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia