Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E M 65.54

Metadata

DS ID:

DS5558

Shelfmark:

Lewis E M 65.54

Title:

Antiphonary

Place:

Melk, Austria

Melk TGN

Date:

1425-1450

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 360 x 519 mm; parchment

Note:

Initial A with the Virgin and Child
This initial begins the first response of the first nocturn of Matins for the feast of the Purification of the Virgin (Feb. 2), 'Adorna thalamum tuum Sion et suscipe regem Christum' (Adorn your bridal chamber, Sion, and receive Christ the King). 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 historiated initial from an antiphonary.
Script: Gothic bookhand

Keyword:

Fifteenth century

Austrian

Austria

fragments (object portions)

Liturgics

Historiated initials

Antiphonaries

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_m_065_054.html

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia