Antiphonary, Dominican use

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Cambridge, MA, Harvard University, Houghton Library, MS Typ 1002

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