(Q46892)
Statements
Antiphonary
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Manuscripts, Medieval--Italy--1150-1200
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Manuscripts, Medieval--Italy--1100-1150
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Catholic Church--Ambrosian rite
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ca. 1150
12. century
1150Gregorian
1150Gregorian
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Extent: 1 v. (141 leaves, in paper wrappers) in 1 box : vellum ; 27 cm.
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Written in an unidentified hand in brown ink in a small rounded late Carolingian minuscule of chiefly 11 lines in single or double columns with neumes arranged above and below a single red stave. Large decorated or historiated initials in red and/or brown with zoomorphic geometric designs, and penwork flourishes appear on ff. 1v, 18r, 27v, 71v (2), 77r, while smaller colored initials occur...
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Written in Lombardy, perhaps Milan, ca. 1150.
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Enclosed in decorative paste paper covers; remains of medieval stitching on 3 leather thongs.
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In a box.
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Belonged to an unidentified monastery, "Iste liber est [de] monesteri di loco legnate" (f. 126r); Sotheby's, London, 7 Dec. 2004, lot 37.
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Purchased with the Bayard Livingston Kilgour and Kate Gray Kilgour fund, and with unrestricted and undesignated funds, 2005.
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23 July 2024
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23 July 2024
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