(Q16913)
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28 November 2023
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Single leaf from a 14th-century gradual : in Latin].
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Leo S. Olschki (Firm)
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Italy
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Manuscripts, Medieval--Massachusetts--Boston
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between ca. 1350 and 1399
14. century
1350Gregorian
1399Gregorian
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Extent: 1 leaf : parchment, ill. ; 543 x 381 (410 x 250) mm
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Ms. leaf.
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Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
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Layout: Single column, six staves. Bounding and writing lines in light plummet. Square Gregorian notation on a four-line red staff, no stems.
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Script: Written in a gothic rotunda in black ink with red rubrics.
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Decoration: One-staff high initials in red with blue filigree or vice versa. On the recto, a two-staff initial [C] in blue on gold with a thick red and blue frame, acanthus with gold balls scrolling to upper right and lower left corner, including a dragon in the outer border, the initial historiated with the Last Supper: Christ and the twelve apostles seated at a round table, Christ at the...
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Binding: Housed in an oversize folder.
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Origin: Written in northern Italy in the second half of the fourteenth century.
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Provenance: Residue of blue mounting tape at corners and outer margin of recto. Original foliation in red roman numerals in the center of the outer margin of the verso, "CXXVI".
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Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased in 1954 from Olschki.
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Call number: MS pb Med.155.
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Former call number: MS 1580.
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Bibliography: Boston Public Library Quarterly VII (1955), p.75.
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4 December 2023
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