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. ; 537 x 385 (375 x 247) mm.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/s4655v789
Terms of Use:
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Place of origin:
[Italy]
Language:
Latin
Table of Contents:
Missus est Gabriel ... / ... Ecce concipies et paries et vo[cabis] ... Matins of the Annunciation (25 March)
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, six staves. Bounding and writing lines in light plummet. Square Gregorian notation on a four-line red staff.
Script: Written in a Gothic rotunda in black ink. S. XVII brown ink arabic foliation, "163", lower right corner recto.
Decoration: On the recto, a two-staff high initial [M] in colors with minimal acanthus scrolling into margins, historiated with the Annunciation: the Angel Gabriel kneeling at left, the Virgin seated at the right, a fortified city in the background.
Binding: Housed in an oversize folder.
Notes (bibliography):
Bibliography: Boston Public Library Quarterly VII (1955), p.74.
Identifier:
06_01_016107-06_01_016108
Call #:
RARE BKS MS pb Med. 169
MS 1594 (no longer used)
Barcode:
39999087033690