Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E M 65.20

Metadata

DS ID:

DS5524

Shelfmark:

Lewis E M 65.20

Title:

Antiphonary

Place:

Melk, Austria

Melk TGN

Date:

1425-1450

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 359 x 511 mm; parchment

Note:

Initial E
This initial begins the first antiphon at Lauds for the feast of the Birth John the Baptist (June 24), 'Elyzabeth zachariae magnum virum genuit johannem baptistam precursorem domini.' (Elizabeth [wife] of Zachary gave birth to John the Baptist, a great man and precursor of the Lord). Lewis E M 65:1-78 were once thought to have come from a single manuscript associated with the Cistercian...
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 recto, contains chants for Matins of the same feast as that on the front of the leaf.
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_020.html

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia