Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E M 65.78

Metadata

DS ID:

DS5582

Shelfmark:

Lewis E M 65.78

Title:

Antiphonary

Place:

Melk, Austria

Melk TGN

Date:

1425-1450

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 362 x 520 mm; parchment

Note:

Initial H
This initial begins the first antiphon for Lauds of the feast of the Holy Innocents (Dec. 28), 'Herodes iratus occidit multos pueros in Bethleham Iudae civitate David' (Enraged, Herod put to death many male childrenof Judae in Bethleham, the city 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...
These leaves can be dated to ca. 1430-1440.
This image shows the reverse of a leaf with a decorated initial from an antiphonary.
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_078.html

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia