Cutting of initial A from a 15th-century antiphonal : in Latin

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Title:: Cutting of initial A from a 15th-century antiphonal : in Latin
Title (uniform):: Antiphonal
Creator:: Catholic Church
Former owner:: Leonardo Lapiccirella (Firm)
Date:: [ca. 1450]
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 > Tuscany (region) > Firenze (province) > Florence
Extent:: 1 leaf : parchment, ill. ; 226 x 170 mm.
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Place of origin:: [Italy (Florence?)]
Language:: Latin
Table of Contents:: [Recto] An[gelus domini descen]dit de celo.../ [Verso] ...[e]nim quod cru/[cifixum qua]eritis iam/ [surrexit] venite et vide[te...].
Notes:: Ms. leaf.
Title devised by cataloger.
Origin: Written in Italy, possibly Florence, in the mid-fifteenth century.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Notes (acquisition):: Source of acquisition: Acquired in 1957 from Lapiccirella, Libreria Antiquaria, Florence.
Notes (citation):: Bond, W.H. Supplement to the Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, p. 222
Notes (object):: Script: Written in a Gothic rotunda in black ink, no rubrics extant.
Layout: 1 column, 3 staves extant. Bounding and writing lines in light plummet. Square Gregorian notation on a four-line red staff.
Decoration: Recto: two-staff high pink initial with acanthus clusters at corners, gold balls and filigree sprays into margin, an angel opening the empty sepulchre.
Binding: Housed in an oversize folder.
Identifier:: 06_01_016282-06_01_016283
Call #:: RARE BKS MS pb Med. 192
BPL MS 1618 (no longer used)
Barcode:: 39999087663827