(Q17006)
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28 November 2023
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Cutting from a 14th-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 1300 and 1350?
14. century
1300Gregorian
1350Gregorian
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Extent: 1 item : parchment, ill. ; 229 x 356 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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Collation: Parchment cutting (approx. half of one folio, used as book cover).
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Layout: 1 column, 4 staves extant. 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: On the cleanest side, a two-staff high historiated floriate initial in colors on dark blue with white geometric shapes in the background, a crowned female saint.
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Binding: Housed in an oversize manilla folder.
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Origin: Written in Italy, possibly Florence, in the first half of the fourteenth century.
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Provenance: Used in the eighteenth century as a cover for the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, that title written on what would have been the spine of the covered book; the dimensions of the covered book (160 x 120 mm, approx. 40 mm thick (or around 250 leaves)) suggest the editions of 1704, 1716 or 1734.
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Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased by the BPL in 1958.
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Currently cataloged under call no. MS pb Med.204.
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4 December 2023
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