Antiphonary, Dominican use
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Cambridge, MA, Harvard University, Houghton Library, MS Typ 1002
Harvard University, HOLLIS (Born Digital)
Description URL
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General Information
Title Antiphonary, Dominican use
Shelfmarks MS Typ 1002
Material vellum
Place of Origin Italy
Script, Hands
The text is written in a large gothic rotunda hand, with music on a red 4-line staff.
Original Condition
Page Height 550 mm
Page Width 390 mm
Height of Written Area 380 mm
Width of Written Area 280 mm
Number of Columns 1
Width of Columns 280 mm
Number of Lines 6
Line Height 10 mm
Current Condition
Dimensions 54 cm
Book Decoration and Musical Notation
Persons: The illumination has been ascribed to the Master of the Dominican Effigies, working in Florence: see Palladino.
Description
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.
Bibliography
De Ricci, 1708 (D.18)
W. P. Stoneman in Of current interest (Houghton Library 2006), no. 21
P. Palladino, Treasures of a lost art: Italian manuscript painting of the Middle Ages and Renaissance (Metropolitan Museum of Art 2003), no. 23