(Q16916)
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28 November 2023
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Single leaf from a 14th-century gradual : in Latin].
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Germany
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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. ; 510 x 345 (376 x 246) 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, nine staves. staves. Bounding and writing lines in red, bounding and upper, middle and lower writing lines full-length. Square Gregorian notation on a four-line red staff, no stems, measure lines added later in black or red.
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Script: Written in a Gothic rotunda in black ink with red rubrics.
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Decoration: Mid-line major chants begin with slightly enlarged initial in blue with red penwork or vice versa; versicles begin with slightly enlarged initials in black with red infill. On the recto, a two-staff high angular initial [S] in green within a dark red and salmon border, historiated in two compartments: in the upper, a bishop at the left (the High Priest?) and a hooded man (Joachim...
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Binding: Housed in an oversize manilla folder.
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Origin: Written in Germany in the first half of the fourteenth century.
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Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased in 1955 from Maggs.
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Call number: MS pb Med.156.
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Former call number: MS 1581.
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4 December 2023
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