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

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Title:
Single leaf from a 14th-century antiphonal : in Latin
Title (uniform):
Antiphonal
Creator:
Catholic Church
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. ; 550 x 402 (375 x 280) mm.
Permalink:
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Place of origin:
[Italy]
Language:
Latin
Table of Contents:
[Confirma hoc deus ... tu]o quod est in ierusalem ... / R. Dum complerentur di/es ... / ... replevit totam do[mum] ... Matins office, Pentecost.
Notes:
Ms. leaf.
Title devised by cataloger.
Origin: Written in Italy in the mid-fourteenth century.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
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. 219
Notes (object):
Layout: Single column, five 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: On the recto, a two-staff high initial [D] in pale rose on blue, the letter and background with white filigree, thin vines with elongated heart-shaped leaves along inner margin, historiated with the Pentecost: a crowd of apostles, the holy spirit in the form of a dove descending from above.
Binding: Housed in an oversize folder.
Notes (bibliography):
Bibliography: Boston Public Library Quarterly VII (1955), p.75.
Identifier:
06_01_016105-06_01_016106
Call #:
RARE BKS MS pb Med. 168
MS 1593 (no longer used)
Barcode:
39999087033575