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
Description:
[recto] ... petebat ut sibi ... / R. Hic est sacer antistes ze/[verso]no ... / & fulserunt in mundum mi[racula] ... Office of St. Zeno (12 April)
Creator:
Catholic Church
Date:
[ca. 1350]
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. ; 543 x 383 (378 x 256) mm.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/s4655v48k
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Place of origin:
[Italy]
Language:
Latin
Notes:
Ms. leaf.
Title devised by cataloger.
Origin: Written in Italy in the first half of the fourteenth century.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Notes (acquisition):
Source of acquisition: Purchased from La Bibliofilia, Milan, in 1954.
Notes (citation):
Bond, W.H. Supplement to the Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, p. 217
Notes (object):
Script: Written in a Gothic rotunda in black ink with red rubrics.
Layout: Single column, 6 staves. Bounding and ruling lines in blind. Square Gregorian notation on a four-line red staff, no stems.
Decoration: On the recto, a two-staff high initial [H] in colors with some scrolling leaves at the corners, historiated with St. Zeno in his Bishop's robes excorcising a demon from the daughter of Emperor Gallienus, who kneels before him as the winged demon flies from the top of her head.
Binding: Housed in an oversize folder.
Notes (bibliography):
Bibliography: Boston Public Library quarterly, VII (1955), p. 75.
Identifier:
06_01_016087-06_01_016088
Call #:
RARE BKS MS pb Med. 149
MS 1574 (no longer used)
Barcode:
39999087033823