(Q16946)
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28 November 2023
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Cutting from a 15th-century antiphonal : in Latin].
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Netherlands
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Manuscripts, Medieval--Netherlands
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Manuscripts, Medieval--Massachusetts--Boston
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ca. 1450
15. century
1450Gregorian
1450Gregorian
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Extent: 1 item : parchment, ill. ; 98 x 96 mm set in paper sheet measuring 230 x 175 mm
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Illuminated initial "A" showing the Visitation, cut from a mid-15th century Dutch antiphonal.
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Ms. fragment.
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In Latin.
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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 bookhand in black ink with red rubrics.
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Mounted to a sheet of paper with the no. 38 in a dealer's hand, probably the leaf's number in the dealer's portfolio. Same dealer's handwritten description on the upper half of the sheet reads "Rhenish school (? Dutch): first half, 15th century/ Initial "A", showing The Visitation." Housed in a wrap-around folder in an oversize manilla folder.
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Origin: Written in the Netherlands in the mid-15th century.
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Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased in 1957 from Maggs.
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Call number: MS pb Med.174.
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Former call number: MS 1599.
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4 December 2023
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