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. ; 557 x 380 (363 x 280) mm.
Permalink:
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Place of origin:
Vienna
Language:
Latin
Table of Contents:
1. [Tollite portas principes vestras et elevamini portae e]ternales et introibit rex glorie. / Com. Revelabitur gloria domini et videbit omnis caro saluta / [verso]re dei nostri. / In nativitate domini. In prima missa. Introitus. / Dominus dixit ad me filius meus estu ego hodie genuite. Ps.
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. 206 and MS pb Med. 207.
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, "xxxv."
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 green foliate initial [D] in colors on gold within a light pink frame, historiated with the Annunciation to the Shepherds: in a greensward before a fortified city, three shepherds with their flock gaze upwards at an angel holding a banderole reading "Annuncio vobis gaudium magnum."
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_016632-06_01_016633
Call #:
RARE BKS MS pb Med. 205
Barcode:
39999085498606