Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E M 65.15

Metadata

DS ID:

DS5519

Shelfmark:

Lewis E M 65.15

Title:

Antiphonary

Place:

Melk, Austria

Melk TGN

Date:

1425-1450

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 360 x 510 mm; parchment

Note:

Initial M
This initial begins the first antiphon at Lauds for the feast of the Annunciation to the Virgin (March 25), 'Missus est Gabriel Angelus ad Mariam Virginem desponsatam Joseph.' (The angel Gabriel was sent to the Virgin Mary betrothed to Joseph).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...
These leaves can be dated to ca. 1430-1440.
This image shows the reverse of a leaf with an initial from an antiphonary. This side of the leaf, the true verso, continues the antiphons for Lauds.
Script: Gothic bookhand

Keyword:

Fifteenth century

Austrian

Austria

fragments (object portions)

Liturgics

Antiphonaries

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_m_065_015.html

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia