(Q16931)
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Single leaf 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 leaf : parchment, ill. ; 550 x 402 (375 x 280) mm
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Ms. leaf.
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Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
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Layout: Single column, five staves. Bounding and writing lines in light plummet. Square Gregorian notation on a four-line red staff, no stems.
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Script: Written in a Gothic rotunda in black ink with red rubrics.
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Decoration: On the recto, a two-staff high initial [D] in pale rose on blue, the letter and background with white filigree, thin vines with elongated heart-shaped leaves along inner margin, historiated with the Pentecost: a crowd of apostles, the holy spirit in the form of a dove descending from above.
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Binding: Housed in an oversize manilla folder.
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Origin: Written in Italy in the mid-fourteenth century.
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Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased in 1954 from La Bibliofilia, Milan.
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Call number: MS pb Med.168.
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Former call number: MS 1593.
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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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