(Q16943)
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28 November 2023
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Cutting from a 15th-century antiphonal : in Latin].
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Libreria antiquaria Hoepli
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Italy
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Manuscripts, Medieval--Massachusetts--Boston
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between ca. 1400 and 1450
15. century
1400Gregorian
1450Gregorian
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Extent: 1 item : parchment, ill. ; 212 x 131 mm
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Ms. fragment.
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Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
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Layout: Bounding and writing lines in light plummet. Square Gregorian notation on a four-line red staff.
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Script: Written in a Gothic rotunda in black ink with red rubrics.
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Decoration: A two-staff high floriate initial [V] (for "Vidi speciosam sicut," the first responsory of Matins) in shades of rose on gold leaf with acanthus scrolling slightly into margin, historiated with the Death of the Virgin: the Virgin lies on her deathbed, surrounded by the apostles, St. Paul in the center, St. Peter (with key) at the right.
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Binding: Housed in an oversize manilla folder.
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Origin: Produced in Italy in the early fifteenth century.
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Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased in 1954 from Hoepli.
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Call number: MS pb Med.173.
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Former call number: MS 1598.
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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), no. 49.
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4 December 2023
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