Single leaf from a 15th-century gradual : in Latin

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Title:
Single leaf from a 15th-century gradual : in Latin
Creator:
Catholic Church
Former owner:
Ball, John Henry
Former owner:
Ball, John Brayfield
Former owner:
Lucas, Sydney Edward
Date:
1458–1465
Format:
Manuscripts
Genre:
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Graduals (Service books)
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Medieval and Early Renaissance Manuscripts (Collection of Distinction)
Places:
Austria > Vienna state > Vienna
Extent:
1 leaf : parchment, ill. ; 548 x 358 (360 x 280) mm.
Permalink:
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Place of origin:
Vienna
Language:
Latin
Table of Contents:
[Comm.] Dominus iesus postquam cenavit ... / [verso] ... exemplum dedi vobis ut et vos ita faciatis. / ... Dominicae resurrectionis. Introitus. / Resurrexi et ad huc tecum sum alleluia/
Notes:
Ms. leaf.
Title devised by cataloger.
Origin: Written in South Germany or Switzerland in the late fifteenth century, from the same manuscript as MS pb Med. 205 and MS pb Med. 206.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis and on entry no. 75 in the "Beyond Words" catalog.
Notes (ownership):
Provenance: Ball Collection label, upper outer corner of the verso.
Notes (acquisition):
Purchased by the BPL from Maggs in 1961.
Notes (object):
Collation: Parchment leaf. Original Roman foliation upper margin verso in alternating red and blue epigraphic capitals, "xxxix."
Layout: One column, five staves. Square Gregorian notation on a four-line red staff.
Script: Written in a Gothic rotunda in black ink with red rubrics.
Decoration: On the verso, a two-staff high pink floriate initial on gold within a green border, historiated with the Resurrection: Jesus, holding a cruciform staff with a hanging banner, rises from the sepulchre as the soldiers sleep on the ground. Full border of thin green vines terminating in flowers.
Binding: Housed in an oversized folder.
Notes (bibliography):
Bibliography: Jeffrey Hamburger, et al., eds. Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections. (Chestnut Hill: McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2016): no. 75.8.
Notes (language):
In Latin.
Identifier:
06_01_016634-06_01_016635
Call #:
RARE BKS MS pb Med. 207
Barcode:
39999085422424