The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 1735

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9687

Shelfmark:

mssHM 1735

Title:

Fragment from a Breviary

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

between 1100 and 1150

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 2 : parchment ; 214 x 302 mm

Note:

Fragment from a breviary written in the first half of the twelfth century in Italy, perhaps Lucca, given the form of the neumes; the presence of 12 responses shows monastic origin. Formerly the endleaves in RB 89742 (Johannes Annius, Auctores vetustissimi [Rome: Eucharius Silber, 1498]).
Span folios: ff. 1-2v. Support: Parchment. Layout: Ruled space, 247 x 180 mm; 14 lines of text, ruled in dry point on the hair side with triple vertical bounding lines; pricking in slash form visible in the outer margin of f. 2. Written in a minuscule script.
Music in neumes on 3-line staves, the F clef in red and the other two lines ruled in dry point; clefs A, C and F written to the left of the text.
Decoration: On f. 1, opening initial, ca. 75 x 50 mm., in red and green with blue and green infilling, decorated with white vine stem. Secondary initials, ca. 15 x 15 mm., alternating ink of the text and red, set outside the written space; rubrics in red.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 12/13/2009.
Formerly as endleaves in RB 89742 acquired by Henry E. Huntington from A. S. W. Rosenbach in September 1924. The leaves were removed from the printed book and catalogued separately in February 1927.

Keyword:

musical notation

detached leaves

manuscripts (documents)

breviaries

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861913

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:52380/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens