[recto] [v. Dominus dixit ad] me filius meus es tu ... / Off. Letentur celi ... / Co. In splendoribus sanctorum ... /[verso] In aurora ad missam offertorium/ Lux fulgebit hodie ... / & futuri seculi cuius re[gni ... ] Christmas, midnight mass.
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. 153; 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 "XXVII"; the s. XVII black ink arabic pagination found on BPL MS pb. Med. 153 is lacking.
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. 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 verso, a two-staff high initial [L] in pale blue and pale salmon on blue with white filigree highlighting, historiated with the Nativity: the Virgin reclines on a mattress, Joseph sleeps with his head resting on his hand behind and to the left, the Christ-child lies swaddles in a cradle in the center background, watched over by a donkey and a bull; at the top of the initial, the Annunciation to the Shepherds (three angels and two shepherds).
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. 45. Boston Public Library Quarterly VII (1955), p.74.