(Q17036)
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28 November 2023
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Single leaf 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 1350 and 1400
14. century
1350Gregorian
1399Gregorian
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Extent: 1 leaf : parchment, ill. ; 614 x 415 (445 x 285) mm
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Ms. leaf.
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Title devised by cataloger.
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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. Square Gregorian notation on a four-line red staff.
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Decoration: On the verso, a one-staff high historiated pale pink initial [S] in two registers: above, Christ crowned with thorns; below, the Crown of Thorns set upon an altar by two robed clerics observed by a crowned king, perhaps the French King Louis IX depositing the Crown at St-Chapelle in 1248. Floriate border of thick columns and vines terminating in acanthus.
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Binding: Housed in an oversize folder.
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Origin: Written in Italy in the second half of the 14th century.
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Provenance: 16th-century brown arabic foliation, upper outer corner of the recto, "105"; 18th-century black arabic foliation, upper margin verso, "107".
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Immediate source of acquisition: Acquired in 1958, source unrecorded; remnants of blue mounting tape at corners.
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Call number: MS pb Med.222.
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Former call number: BPL MS 1734.
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4 December 2023
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