Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E M 65.6

Metadata

DS ID:

DS5510

Shelfmark:

Lewis E M 65.6

Title:

Antiphonary

Place:

Melk, Austria

Melk TGN

Date:

1425-1450

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 359 x 509 mm; parchment

Note:

This image shows the reverse of a leaf with a decorated initial from an antiphonary. This side of the leaf, the true recto, contains the invitatory for the feast of Mary Magdalene.
Initial M
These leaves can be dated to ca. 1430-1440.
This initial begins the first response of the first nocturn of Matins for the feast of Mary Magdalene (July 22) 'Maria Magdalene at altera Maria ibant diluculo ad monumentum.' (Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went at dawn to the tomb). Lewis E M 65:1-78 were once thought to have come from a single manuscript associated with the Cistercian monastery at Zwettl in Austria. It has been...
Script: Gothic bookhand

Keyword:

Fifteenth century

Austrian

Austria

illuminations (paintings)

fragments (object portions)

Liturgics

illustrations (layout features)

Antiphonaries

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_m_065_006.html

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia