Cutting from a 14th-century antiphonal : in Latin

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Title:
Cutting from a 14th-century antiphonal : in Latin
Title (uniform):
Antiphonal
Description:
In an initial [E], St. James and St. Philip standing with scrolls, for their feastday (1 May).
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. ; 115 x 115 mm.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/s4655v72n
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Place of origin:
[Italy (Venice?)]
Language:
Latin
Notes:
Ms. fragment.
Title devised by cataloger.
Origin: Produced in Italy in the mid-fourteenth century. From the same manuscript as BPL MS pb. Med. 166. The [E] could be the incipit of the Matins Antiphon "Ego sum vitis" or the Mass Introit "Exclamaverunt ad te," among other possible chants; with only a few letters visible on the dorse, it is therefore impossible to determine from this cutting if this initial was cut from an Office or a Mass book. The sister cutting pb. Med. 166 can be tentatively identified as having been cut from an Antiphonal, however.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
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. Only a few letters visible on dorse. Square Gregorian notation on a four-line red staff.
Binding: Housed in an oversize folder.
Notes (bibliography):
Bibliography: Boston Public Library Quarterly VII (1955), p.75.
Identifier:
06_01_016099-06_01_016100
Call #:
RARE BKS MS pb Med. 165
MS 1590 (no longer used)
Barcode:
39999087033955