Cutting from a 15th-century antiphonal : in Latin

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Title:
Cutting from a 15th-century antiphonal : in Latin
Title (uniform):
Antiphonal
Creator:
Catholic Church
Former owner:
Hoepli (Firm : Milan, Italy)
Date:
[ca. 1400–1425]
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. ; 517 x 230 (410 x approx. 360 (half-width extant)) mm.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/5q47t068s
Terms of Use:
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Place of origin:
[Italy (Ferrara?)]
Language:
Latin
Table of Contents:
Recto: ... te adore ... / A[daperiat d]ominus [cor vestrum]. Verso: [in le]ge sua et/ [in praece]ptis suis/ [et faciat] pacem in/ [diebus] vestris/ [conce]dat vobis sa[lutem] ... Summer Sunday of Maccabees, Matins.
Notes:
Ms. fragment.
Title devised by cataloger.
Origin: Written in Italy in the early 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 Hoepli, Milan.
Notes (citation):
Bond, W.H. Supplement to the Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, p. 220
Notes (object):
Layout: Single column, five staves. Bounding and writing lines in light brown ink, bounding lines doubled and full-length. Square Gregorian notation on a four-line red staff.
Script: Written in a Gothic rotunda in black ink with red rubrics.
Decoration: Recto: two-staff high historiated floriate initial in colors on gold with acanthus and gold balls in margin: Judah Maccabee in armor on horseback with raised sword.
Binding: Housed in an oversized folder.
Identifier:
06_01_014528-06_01_014529
Call #:
RARE BKS MS pb Med. 177
MS 1602 (no longer used)
Barcode:
39999087033450