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
Former owner:
Leo S. Olschki (Firm)
Date:
[ca. 1350–1399]
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. ; 502 x 352 (351 x 240) mm.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/s4655v81m
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Place of origin:
[Italy]
Language:
Latin
Table of Contents:
[Scientes quia hora] ... enim propior est nostra ... / v. Ex syon species de co/[verso]ris eius. R. Deus noster/ mani[fe]ste veniet. R./ Aspiciens a longe ... / ... dei potentiam veni[entem] ... Matins, first Sunday of Advent.
Notes:
Ms. leaf.
Title devised by cataloger.
Origin: Written in Italy in the second half of the 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 Olschki.
Notes (citation):
Bond, W.H. Supplement to the Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, p. 220
Notes (object):
Layout: Single column, six staves. Bounding and writing lines in blind. Square Gregorian notation on a four-line red staff, measures added in red.
Script: Written in a Gothic rotunda in black ink with red rubrics. Early arabic foliation, "2", upper outer margin recto; slightly later arabic pagination in outer margins, "3" and "4" as expected, since this was the second leaf of the manuscript.
Decoration: On the verso, a two-staff high foliate initial [A] with tendrils and with gold balls along outer margin and scrolling acanthus into lower margin, historiated in two registers: above, Christ and two angels; below, two nimbed apostles gazing upwards holding blank banderoles.
Binding: Housed in an oversize folder.
Notes (bibliography):
Bibliography: Boston Public Library Quarterly VII (1955), p.75.
Identifier:
06_01_016109-06_01_016110
Call #:
RARE BKS MS pb Med. 171
MS 1596 (no longer used)
Barcode:
39999087033815