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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)--Italy
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Manuscripts, Medieval--Italy
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Manuscripts, Medieval--Massachusetts--Boston
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Extent: 1 leaf : parchment, ill. ; 507 x 361 (365 x 265) 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, seven 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: One-staff high initials in red with blue filigree or vice versa. On the verso, a two-staff high initial [L] in pale blue and pale salmon on blue with white filigree highlighting, historiated with the Nativity: the Virgin reclines on a mattress, Joseph sleeps with his head resting on his hand behind and to the left, the Christ-child lies swaddles in a cradle in the center...
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Binding: Housed in an oversize folder.
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Origin: Written in northern Italy in the first half of the fourteenth century.
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Provenance: From the same set (not the same manuscript) as BPL MS pb. Med.153; one is an antiphonal, the other a gradual, and the two leaves have somewhat different measurements. Remnants of blue mounting-corners at top. Original red Roman ink foliation, in the center of the outer margin of the verso, numbers this leaf "XXVII"; the 17th-century black ink arabic pagination found on BPL MS pb...
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Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased in 1954 from La Bibliofilia, Milan.
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Call number: MS pb Med.154.
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Former call number: MS 1578.
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Bibliography: Netzer, N. ed., Secular/Sacred 11th-16th Century Works from the Boston Public Library and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston College, 2006), nr. 45. Boston Public Library Quarterly VII (1955), p.74.
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4 December 2023
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