Gradual or antiphonary : manuscript, circa 1400
- Title
- Gradual or antiphonary : manuscript, circa 1400
- Creator / Contributor
- Catholic Church
- Place of Origin
- Italy
- Date
- 1400
- Language
- Latin
- Description
- Extent: 3 fragments : vellum ; 12 x 12 cm. or smaller, mounted together to 47 x 30 cm.
print - Abstract
- 3 cuttings of historiated initials: (1) the letter "H" with a bishop saint (St. Martin?); (2) the letter "S" with St. Mary of the Snow; (3) the letter "D" with a female martyr.
- Genre
- Manuscripts-Italy-1350-1400.
Manuscripts-Italy-1400-1450.
Cuttings from manuscripts.
Historiated initials. - Notes
- The versos show music on a large 4-line red staff with text in a gothic rotunda hand and initials with pen-work decoration.
Drawn in tempera and colored inks, with gold leaf.
Nos. 1 and 2 are by one artist, no. 3 by another.
MS Typ 983. Houghton Library, Harvard University.
The Houghton Library accession number 90M-16 and former Fogg Art Museum accession numbers should no longer be used in referring to these fragments. The Fogg Museum numbers correspond to the present item numbers as follows: 1916.17 = no. 1; 1916.18 = no. 2; 1916.19 = no. 3.
Also available in an electronic version. - Series
- Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library
- Repository
- Houghton Library, Harvard University
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