(Q16964)
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28 November 2023
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Single leaf from a 15th-century gradual : in Latin].
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Italy
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Massachusetts--Boston
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Manuscripts, Medieval--Massachusetts--Boston
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between 1450 and 1499
15. century
1450Gregorian
1499Gregorian
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Extent: 1 leaf : parchment, ill. ; 495 x 324 (370 x 225) mm
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Ms. leaf.
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In Latin.
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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 with red rubrics.
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Layout: 1 column, 5 staves. Bounding and writing lines in light plummet, vertical bounding lines full-length. Square Gregorian notation on a four-line red staff.
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Decoration: Recto: 1-staff high blue initial with red and green filigree; verso: 2-staff high historiated floriate initial in colors on gold with ơ-border consisting of a linear column in colors with acanthus and gold balls, with floral sprays into lower and upper margins: St. Paul holding a sword and a stack of epistles, the outermost reading "Ad romanos". The historiated initial has been cut...
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Binding: Housed in an oversize manila folder.
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Origin: Written in northern Italy in the second half of the 15th-century.
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Immediate source of acquisition: Acquired in 1957 from Maggs.
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Call number: MS pb Med.180.
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Former call number: BPL MS 1605.
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4 December 2023
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