Cutting from a 14th-century antiphonal : in Latin

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Title:
Cutting from a 14th-century antiphonal : in Latin
Title (uniform):
Antiphonal
Creator:
Catholic Church
Former owner:
Hoepli (Firm : Milan, Italy)
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. ; 120 x 105 mm.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/s4655v66h
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Place of origin:
[Italy]
Language:
Latin
Table of Contents:
In an initial [S], the Presentation in the Temple, for the Feast of the Circumcision (i.e. the Octave of Christmas, 1 January): before the altar, the Virgin hands the Christ-child to St. Simeon; at the far left, Joseph holds the two doves for the sacrifice; at the far right, Anna the Prophetess stands holding a banderole reading "Anna Profetisa." (see Luke 2:36-38). She is nimbed, having been confused
as is often the case
with St. Anne.
Notes:
Ms. fragment.
Title devised by cataloger.
Origin: Produced in Italy in the mid-fourteenth century.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Notes (ownership):
Provenance: The [S] seems likely to have been cut from the beginning of the antiphon "Speciosus formata", in which case the text on the dorse, "... pleti s[un]t ..." is likely to be from the antiphon "Hodie completi sunt." The manuscript would then be identifiable as an Antiphonal. From the same manuscript as BPL MS pb. Med. 165.
Notes (acquisition):
Source of acquisition: Purchased in 1953 from Hoepli.
Notes (citation):
Bond, W.H. Supplement to the Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, p. 219
Notes (object):
Script: Written in a Gothic rotunda in black ink.
Binding: Housed in an oversize folder.
Notes (bibliography):
Bibliography: Boston Public Library Quarterly VII (1955), p.75.
Identifier:
06_01_016101-06_01_016102
Call #:
RARE BKS MS pb Med. 166
MS 1591 (no longer used)
Barcode:
39999087033831