Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E M 65.60

Metadata

DS ID:

DS5564

Shelfmark:

Lewis E M 65.60

Title:

Antiphonary

Place:

Melk, Austria

Melk TGN

Date:

1425-1450

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 361 x 516 mm; parchment

Note:

Initial H
This initial begins the first response of the first nocturn of Matins for the feast of the Nativity of the Virgin (Sept. 8), 'Hodie nata est beata virgo maria ex progenie david' (Today the Blessed Virgin Mary was born of the line of David). 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 a decorated initial from an antiphonary. This is the leaf's true verso. The text continues from the front.
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_060.html

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia