(Q16922)
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Cutting from a 14th-century antiphonal : in Latin].
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Italy
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Manuscripts, Medieval--Massachusetts--Boston
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ca. 1350
14. century
1350Gregorian
1350Gregorian
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Extent: 1 item : parchment, ill. ; 115 x 115 mm
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Ms. fragment.
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Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
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Script: Written in a Gothic rotunda in black ink. Only a few letters visible on dorse. Square Gregorian notation on a four-line red staff.
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Binding: Housed in an oversize folder.
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Origin: Produced in Italy in the mid-fourteenth century. From the same manuscript as BPL MS pb. Med. 166. The [E] could be the incipit of the Matins Antiphon "Ego sum vitis" or the Mass Introit "Exclamaverunt ad te," among other possible chants; with only a few letters visible on the dorse, it is therefore impossible to determine from this cutting if this initial was cut from an Office or a...
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Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased in 1953 from Hoepli.
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Call number: MS pb Med.165.
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Former call number: MS 1590.
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Bibliography: Boston Public Library Quarterly VII (1955), p.75.
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28 November 2023
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28 November 2023
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