Antiphonary, Dominican use : manuscript, [between 1335 and 1340]
- Title
- Antiphonary, Dominican use : manuscript, [between 1335 and 1340]
Alternative Title: Antiphonary - Creator / Contributor
- Catholic Church
- Place of Origin
- Italy
- Language
- Latin
- Description
- Extent: 1 leaf : vellum ; 54 cm.
print - Abstract
- A single leaf containing the antiphon for the First Vespers "Gaude celum terra plaude", rubricated for the feast of St. Elizabeth of Hungary, followed by the responsory "Celi fulgens solio solis.
- Genre
- Manuscripts, Medieval-Italy-1300-1350.
Rules (layout features) - Notes
- The text is written in a large gothic rotunda hand, with music on a red 4-line staff.
The initial letter "G" is historiated, showing a female saint in a Dominican habit, crowned, apparently Bd. Elizabeth of Hungary (d. 1320). This is drawn in tempera with gold leaf.
The illumination has been ascribed to the Master of the Dominican Effigies, working in Florence: see Palladino.
MS Typ 1002. Houghton Library, Harvard University.
The Houghton Library accession number 90M-16 and former Fogg Art Museum accession number 1943.1866 should no longer be used in referring to this ms.
Also available in an electronic version. - Series
- Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library
- Repository
- Houghton Library, Harvard University
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