Recto: [Introitus. Venite adoremus regum.../...vir]go mater assumpta est caelum.../...In primo noct. ant./ Exalta est sancti dei genetrix super choros angelorum ad cele[stia]... Verso: [ant. Ingressus angelus ad mariam.../...benedic]ta tu in mulieribus.../...fructus ventris tui.../... R./ Vidi spetiosam sicut...
Notes:
Ms. leaf (bottom half of leaf).
Assumption of the Virgin, Matins.
Title devised by cataloger.
Origin: Written in Italy, possibly Florence, in the second half of the 13th 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 (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. 222
Notes (object):
Script: Written in a Gothic rotunda in black ink with red rubrics.
Layout: 1 column, 3 staves extant. Bounding and writing lines in light plummet. Square Gregorian notation on a four-line red staff.
Decoration: Verso: two-staff high historiated floriate initial [V], the Virgin and Child, with thin geometric and floriate extensions into lower margin and some leafy extensions at corners of the initial.
Binding: Housed in an oversize folder.
Identifier:
06_01_016284-06_01_016285
Call #:
RARE BKS MS pb Med. 193
BPL MS 1619 (no longer used)