(Q17042)
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28 November 2023
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Single initial D cut from a 16th-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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between 1500 and 1525
16. century
1500Gregorian
1525Gregorian
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Extent: 1 item : parchment, ill. ; 170 x 166 mm
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Ms. leaf.
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Title devised by cataloger.
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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.
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Layout: Two staves extant on verso. Square Gregorian notation on a four-line red staff.
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Decoration: On the recto, a two-staff high floriate initial D in deep pink on gold, historiated with a standing portrait of St. Agnes: the saint stands in the foreground, holding a book and palm frond, a lamb (her attribute) at the right; in the far background, a miniature scene of Agnes burnt at the stake. Unsigned, but attributed by Maggs to the Milanese artist known as "Master B. F."
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Binding: Housed in an oversize manila folder.
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Origin: Painted in Italy, possibly Milan, in the early 16th century.
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Provenance: Perhaps cut from a choirbook made for the Olivetan monastery of SS Angelo e Niccolò at Villanova Sillaro near Lodi in Lombardy (see Maggs catalogue); other cuttings from the same choirbooks are scattered throughout collections in the United States and Canada. Later part of the music collection of Edward Holmes, his "no. 5" on verso.
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Immediate source of acquisition: Acquired in 1961 from Maggs, catalogue 880, no. 71.
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Call number: MS pb Med.224.
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Bibliography: Palladino, Treasures of a Lost Art: Italian Manuscript Painting of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, 142-43; Mirella Levi D'Ancona, The Wildenstein Collection of Illuminations: The Lombard School (Florence, 1970), 99.
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4 December 2023
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