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

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Title:
Single leaf from a 15th-century antiphonal : in Latin
Title (uniform):
Antiphonal
Description:
Gaudeat ecclesia quam indefunctorum . . . / . . . a.Qui dum. [Office of St. Anthony of Padua (13 June)]
Creator:
Catholic Church
Former owner:
Leo S. Olschki (Firm)
Date:
[ca. 1499]
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. ; 648 x 484 (500 x 325) mm.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/s4655v45r
Terms of Use:
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Place of origin:
[Italy]
Language:
Latin
Notes:
Ms. leaf.
Title devised by cataloger.
Date and location derived from contents.
Origin: Written in northern Italy at the end of the fifteenth century.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Notes (acquisition):
Source of acquisition: Purchased from Olschki in 1954.
Notes (citation):
Bond, W.H. Supplement to the Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, p. 217
Notes (object):
Script: Written in a Gothic rotunda in black ink with red rubrics.
Layout: Single column, five staves. Vertical bounding lines in red and doubled, writings lines in light plummet. Square Gregorian notation on a four-line red staff, no stems.
Decoration: On the recto, a two-staff high initial [G] formed with acanthus on a gold and floriate background, historiated with three Franciscans: at the left, St. Anthony of Padua, holding a lily; in the center, St. Francis, with stigmata and holding a book and a small crucifix; and at the right, St. Bernardino da Siena (can. 1450) holding a monstrance.
Binding: Housed in an oversize folder.
Notes (bibliography):
Bibliography: Boston Public Library quarterly VII (1955), p. 75.
Identifier:
06_01_016085-06_01_016086
Call #:
RARE BKS MS pb Med. 148
MS 1573 (no longer used)
Barcode:
39999087033807