Single leaf from a 14th-century gradual : in Latin

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Title:
Single leaf from a 14th-century gradual : in Latin
Title (uniform):
Gradual
Creator:
Catholic Church
Former owner:
Leo S. Olschki (Firm)
Date:
[ca. 1350–1399]
Format:
Manuscripts
Genre:
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Graduals (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 381 (410 x 250) mm.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/s4655v60v
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Place of origin:
[Italy]
Language:
Latin
Table of Contents:
[Introit] Cibavit eos ex adipe ... / ... [verso] Ps. Exultate deo adiutori ... / Gr. Oculi omnium in te spirant domine ... Mass for Corpus Christi.
Notes:
Ms. leaf.
Title devised by cataloger.
Origin: Written in northern Italy in the second half of the fourteenth century.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Notes (ownership):
Provenance: Residue of blue mounting tape at corners and outer margin of recto. Original foliation in red roman numerals in the center of the outer margin of the verso, "CXXVI."
Notes (acquisition):
Source of acquisition: Purchased in 1954 from Olschki.
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, six 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 two-staff initial [C] in blue on gold with a thick red and blue frame, acanthus with gold balls scrolling to upper right and lower left corner, including a dragon in the outer border, the initial historiated with the Last Supper: Christ and the twelve apostles seated at a round table, Christ at the left, John resting on his shoulder, pointing at Judas in the center foreground, towards whom all of the apostles turn.
Binding: Housed in an oversize folder.
Notes (bibliography):
Bibliography: Boston Public Library Quarterly VII (1955), p.75.
Identifier:
06_01_016095-06_01_016096
Call #:
RARE BKS MS pb Med. 155
MS 1580 (no longer used)
Barcode:
39999087033567