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

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Title:
Single leaf from a 15th-century antiphonal : in Latin
Title (uniform):
Antiphonal
Creator:
Catholic Church
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:
Germany
Extent:
1 leaf : parchment, ill. ; 578 x 394 (480 x 236) mm.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/3r076r46s
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Place of origin:
[Germany]
Language:
Latin
Table of Contents:
[Recto] [Ant. De numero prudentum virgines.../...ves]tra prohibeat ad ianuam receptionis velut fatuas nesciat./ In festivitate omnes sanctorum ad vesperas super psalmis.../ O quam gloriosum.../ Ad matutinas ant./ Beati estis sancti.../ [Verso] Invitatorium/ Regem regum dominum.../...sanctorum omnium...
Notes:
Ms. leaf.
Title devised by cataloger.
Origin: Written in Germany in the mid-fifteenth century.
Notes (acquisition):
Source of acquisition: Date and source of acquisition by BPL unknown.
Notes (object):
Script: Written in a Gothic bookhand in black ink with red rubrics.
Layout: 1 column, 9 lines. Bounding and writing lines in blind, square Gregorian notation on 5-line red staff.
Decoration: 2-staff-high historiated initial [O] on recto: busts of five saints afloat in a deep blue heavenly background, their hands clasped in prayer, with God, crowned and holding an orb, above. Foliate border in lower margin in colors and gold.
Binding: Housed in an oversize folder.
Identifier:
06_01_016312-06_01_016313
Call #:
RARE BKS MS pb Med. 259
Barcode:
39999087664007