[Gaude et laetare iherusa]lem ecce rex tuus ... / Ad maiorem missam officium/ Puer natus est ... / v. Cantate domino ... / R. Videnerunt omnes fines ... / v. Notum fecit do[minus ... ]. Office for Christmas morning.
Notes:
Ms. leaf.
Title devised by cataloger.
Origin: Written in northern Italy in the first half of the fourteenth century.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Notes (ownership):
Provenance: From the same set (not the same manuscript) as BPL MS pb. Med. 154; one is an antiphonal, the other a gradual, and the two leaves have somewhat different measurements. Remnants of blue mounting-corners at top. Original red Roman ink foliation, in the center of the outer margin of the verso, numbers this leaf "XXV"; s. XVII black ink arabic pagination in same location, recto "47", verso "48", suggests that the first leaf of the manuscript was missing (or was not numbered) when the later series was added.
Notes (acquisition):
Source of acquisition: Purchased in 1954 from La Bibliofilia, Milan.
Notes (citation):
Bond, W.H. Supplement to the Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, p. 217-218
Notes (object):
Layout: Single column, seven staves. Bounding and writing lines in light plummet. Square Gregorian notation on a four-line red staff, no stems.
Script: Written in a Gothic rotunda in black ink with red rubrics.
Decoration: One-staff high initials in red with blue filigree or vice versa. On the recto, a five-staff high initial [P] in white and orange on blue with white filigree highlights, tendrils of acanthus above and below in same scheme, historiated with the nativity: the Virgin reclining on a mattress, the infant in a cradle above, Joseph sleeping with his head resting on his hand below; in the upper right corner of the initial, the Annunciation to the Shepherds (one angel and one shepherd).
Binding: Housed in an oversize folder.
Notes (bibliography):
Bibliography: Netzer, N. ed., Secular/Sacred 11th-16th Century Works from the Boston Public Library and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston College, 2006), nr. 44. Boston Public Library Quarterly VII (1955), p.74.