Single leaf from a 15th-century gradual : in Latin

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Title:
Single leaf from a 15th-century gradual : in Latin
Title (uniform):
Gradual
Description:
Sts. Peter and Paul (29 June)
Creator:
Catholic Church
Former owner:
Maggs Bros.
Date:
[1450–1499]
Format:
Manuscripts
Genre:
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Graduals (Service books)
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Medieval and Early Renaissance Manuscripts (Collection of Distinction)
Places:
Italy
Extent:
1 leaf : parchment, ill. ; 495 x 324 (370 x 225) mm.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/3r076q31z
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Place of origin:
[Italy]
Language:
Latin
Table of Contents:
[Recto]: ...in omni progenie.../Co. Tu es petrus et super hanc petram [verso]: hedificabo.../...Introitus. Scio cui credidi et certus...
Notes:
Ms. leaf.
Title devised by cataloger.
Origin: Written in northern Italy in the second half of the 15th-century.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Notes (acquisition):
Source of acquisition: Acquired in 1957 from Maggs.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Notes (citation):
Bond, W.H. Supplement to the Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, p. 220
Notes (object):
Script: Written in a Gothic rotunda in black ink with red rubrics.
Layout: 1 column, 5 staves. Bounding and writing lines in light plummet, vertical bounding lines full-length. Square Gregorian notation on a four-line red staff.
Decoration: Recto: 1-staff high blue initial with red and green filigree; verso: 2-staff high historiated floriate initial in colors on gold with ơ-border consisting of a linear column in colors with acanthus and gold balls, with floral sprays into lower and upper margins: St. Paul holding a sword and a stack of epistles, the outermost reading "Ad romanos". The historiated initial has been cut out and restored, necessitating the addition of later patches and repainting where the repair borders the leaf.
Binding: Housed in an oversize folder.
Identifier:
06_01_009689-06_01_009690
Call #:
RARE BKS MS pb Med. 180
BPL MS 1605 (no longer used)
Barcode:
39999087663777