Single leaf from a 14th-century antiphonal : in Latin

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Title:
Single leaf from a 14th-century antiphonal : in Latin
Title (uniform):
Antiphonal
Description:
Epiphany, Matins (6 January)
Creator:
Catholic Church
Former owner:
Hoepli (Firm : Milan, Italy)
Date:
[ca. 1360–1399]
Format:
Manuscripts
Genre:
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Antiphonaries (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. ; 590 x 420 (415 x 270) mm.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/3r076q64h
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Place of origin:
[Siena?]
Language:
Latin
Table of Contents:
[Recto]:[a.] Ante luciferum genitus... / [verso]: apparuit./ a. Venit lumen tuum... / ...orta est et am[bulabunt] ...
Notes:
Ms. leaf.
Title devised by cataloger.
Origin: Written in Italy, possibly Siena, in the late 14th century.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Notes (acquisition):
Source of acquisition: Acquired in 1957 from Hoepli, Milan.
Notes (date):
[in the late 14th-century]
Notes (citation):
Bond, W.H. Supplement to the Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, p. 221
Notes (object):
Script: Written in a Gothic rotunda in black ink with red rubrics.
Layout: 1 column, 5 staves. No visible ruling. Square Gregorian notation on a four-line red staff.
Decoration: On the recto, an historiated floriated initial [A] in gold and colors with full border of scrolling acanthus and a jester; in the initial, the Adoration of the Magi: the Virgin and Child sit at the right, a king kneeling before them who has removed his crown; the other two kings wait in the margin at left.
Binding: Housed in an oversize folder.
Identifier:
06_01_016258-06_01_016259
Call #:
RARE BKS MS pb Med. 184
BPL MS 1609 (no longer used)
Barcode:
39999087663744