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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Boston Public Library (8444746, MS pb Med.206)
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| English | Single leaf from a 15th-century gradual : in Latin]. (DS3410) |
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Boston Public Library (8444746, MS pb Med.206) |
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28 November 2023
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Single leaf from a 15th-century gradual : in Latin].
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Ball, John Henry
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Ball, John Brayfield
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Lucas, Sydney Edward
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Austria
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Manuscripts, Medieval--Massachusetts--Boston
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ca. 1458-1465
15. century
1458Gregorian
1465Gregorian
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Extent: 1 leaf : parchment, ill. ; 550 x 382 (365 x 270) mm
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Ms. leaf.
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In Latin.
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Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis and on entry no. 75 in the Beyond Words catalog.
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Collation: Parchment leaf. Folio number "3" written in upper right corner of recto in black ink, also in center of upper margin.
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Layout: One column, five staves. Bounding and writing lines in light plummet. Square notation on a four-line red staff, C and G lines noted.
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Script: Written in a rounded Gothic bookhand in black ink with red rubrics.
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Decoration (primary): On recto, two-staff-high floriate initial "A" in colors on gold background, for "Aspiciens a longe," the first Responsory of the First Sunday of Advent, historiated with the Holy Hunt; the Virgin sits in an enclosed garden, a small unicorn on her lap. At the left, the Angel Gabriel, as the Huntsman, holds a spear and three leashed hounds with his left hand and brings a...
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Decoration (secondary): Scrolling vines and flowers in upper and lower margins in colors, enclosing busts of Old Testament figures, each with a banderole of an Old Testament quote said to foretell the coming of Jesus, some periphrastic. Upper margin, left to right: Jeremiah: "Mortum faciet dominus super terram" (sic. Jer. 2:6); Baalam: "Orietur stella ex Jacob" (Numbers 24:18). Lower margin...
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Binding: Tipped into custom matte.
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Origin: Written in South Germany or Switzerland in the late fifteenth century. Two other leaves from the same manuscript are MS pb Med.205 and MS pb Med.207.
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Provenance: Round pink label reading "Ball Collection 33" in upper right recto.
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Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased by the BPL from Maggs in 1961.
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Call number: MS pb Med.206.
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Bibliography: Jeffrey Hamburger, et al., eds. Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections. (Chestnut Hill: McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2016): no. 75; Sacred/Secular exhibition, no. 15; Einhorn, J. Spiritalis Unicornis (Munich, 1976), see esp. pp. 212-215, 359-375 and figs. 110-120.
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4 December 2023
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