The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 31052
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS9692
- Shelfmark:
- mssHM 31052
- Title:
- Fragment from a Gradual
- Catholic Church
- Place:
- Bohemia [?]
- Date:
- between 1390 and 1410
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: f. 1 : parchment ; 405 x 568 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Millard, George M., Mrs., 1873-1938
- Note:
- Title supplied by cataloger.
Opening leaf from a gradual written at the turn of the fourteenth century in eastern Europe, perhaps Bohemia.
Span folios: f. 1r-v. Support: Parchment. Layout: Ruled space, 395 x 270 mm; 5 lines of text and music, ruled in lead with double vertical bounding lines and with single horizontal rules limiting space for top and bottom of minims; pricking for the text lines in the outer margin, and for the staves at the edges of the written space. Written in a liturgical book hand; music in square notation...
Decoration: Opening initial, ca. 165 x 140 mm. (the height of 2 lines of text and music), in stippled gold enclosing in its upper compartment a sainted Benedictine abbot (or bishop?), seated, holding an apple (?) in one hand, his crozier in the other, and the Gnadenstuhl between his knees; in the lower compartment, under a gothic canopy and against a tessellated background, a kneeling king...
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 12/13/2009.
Arms of the first owner, gules a fess argent between 3 sea-gulls (?) argent, 2 and 1, supported by a pair of seated lions; crest of the first owner, a bearded old man's head in profile, couped at the bust, proper, with a long cap curled forward, gules, supported by a pair of angels. Belonged to Alice Parsons Millard.
Alice and George Millard collection Illustrating the evolution of the book, acquired for the Huntington Library by a group of their friends in 1939. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861918
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:53259/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
