(Q16922)
Statements
28 November 2023
0 references
Cutting from a 14th-century antiphonal : in Latin].
0 references
Libreria antiquaria Hoepli
0 references
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Italy
0 references
Manuscripts, Medieval--Massachusetts--Boston
0 references
ca. 1350
14. century
1350Gregorian
1350Gregorian
0 references
Extent: 1 item : parchment, ill. ; 115 x 115 mm
0 references
Ms. fragment.
0 references
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
0 references
Script: Written in a Gothic rotunda in black ink. Only a few letters visible on dorse. Square Gregorian notation on a four-line red staff.
0 references
Binding: Housed in an oversize folder.
0 references
Origin: Produced in Italy in the mid-fourteenth century. From the same manuscript as BPL MS pb. Med. 166. The [E] could be the incipit of the Matins Antiphon "Ego sum vitis" or the Mass Introit "Exclamaverunt ad te," among other possible chants; with only a few letters visible on the dorse, it is therefore impossible to determine from this cutting if this initial was cut from an Office or a...
0 references
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased in 1953 from Hoepli.
0 references
Call number: MS pb Med.165.
0 references
Former call number: MS 1590.
0 references
Bibliography: Boston Public Library Quarterly VII (1955), p.75.
0 references
4 December 2023
0 references