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
Creator:
Catholic Church
Date:
[1350–1400]
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. ; 614 x 415 (445 x 285) mm.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/3r076r11p
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Place of origin:
[Italy]
Language:
Latin
Table of Contents:
[Recto] [Inv. Assunt dominici serti.../...ec]clesia.../ In iio no a./ Xpristum sub serto.../...die cuius cru/ [Verso] ore rosco.../ R. Spina carens flos...
Notes:
Ms. leaf.
Title devised by cataloger.
Origin: Written in Italy in the second half of the 14th century.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Notes (ownership):
Provenance: 16th-century brown Arabic foliation, upper outer corner of the recto, "105"; 18th-century black arabic foliation, upper margin verso, "107".
Notes (acquisition):
Source of acquisition: Acquired in 1958, source unrecorded; remnants of blue mounting tape at corners.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
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. Square Gregorian notation on a four-line red staff.
Decoration: On the verso, a one-staff high historiated pale pink initial [S] in two registers: above, Christ crowned with thorns; below, the Crown of Thorns set upon an altar by two robed clerics observed by a crowned king, perhaps the French King Louis IX depositing the Crown at St-Chapelle in 1248. Floriate border of thick columns and vines terminating in acanthus.
Binding: Housed in an oversize folder.
Identifier:
06_01_016290-06_01_016291
Call #:
RARE BKS MS pb Med. 222
BPL MS 1734 (no longer used)
Barcode:
39999087663884