(Q16937)
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28 November 2023
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Single leaf from a 13th-century gradual : in Latin].
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Maestro di Gerona, active approximately 1260-approximately 1290
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Italy
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Manuscripts, Medieval--Massachusetts--Boston
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ca. 1275
13. century
1275Gregorian
1275Gregorian
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Extent: 1 leaf : parchment, ill. ; 518 x 361 (380 x 258) 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 and by Patricia DeLeeuw's entry in the Beyond Words catalog (see bibliography)
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Date and location from the Beyond Words catalog.
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Layout: One column, seven staves. Bounding and writing lines in blind. Square Gregorian notation on a four-line red staff, some stems.
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Script: Written in a Gothic rotunda in black ink with red rubrics.
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Decoration: On the recto, a two-staff high floriate initial [E] on blue with white filigree, historiated with the Adoration of the Magi: the Virgin sits at the left, the Christ-child standing on her lap, Joseph behind; the three Magi kneel at the right, the frontmost presenting his gift. Original Roman foliation, upper margin verso, in alternating red and blue epigraphic capitals, "xxvi...
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Binding: Housed in an oversized folder.
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Origin: Written in Bologna ca. 1275. DeLeeuw notes attribution of the initial to the circle of the Master of the Bible of Gerona. From the same manuscript as BPL pb Med.178.
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Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased by the BPL from La Bibliofilia, Milan, in 1954.
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Former call number: BPL MS 1595.
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Call number: MS pb Med.170.
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For published descriptions, see: More Books/BPL Quarterly VII (1955), p. 75; Netzer, N. ed., Secular/Sacred 11th-16th Century Works from the Boston Public Library and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston College, 2006), no. 48; Jeffrey Hamburger, et al., eds. Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections. (Chestnut Hill: McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2016), no. 147.
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4 December 2023
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