Antiphonary
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Cambridge, MA, Harvard University, Houghton Library, MS Typ 1003
Harvard University, HOLLIS (Born Digital)
Description URL
http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990113010010203941/catalog
http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990113010010203941/catalog
General Information
Title Antiphonary
Shelfmarks MS Typ 1003
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. The verso has an initial letter in blue with red pen-work decoration.
Original Condition
Page Height 460 mm
Page Width 300 – 310 mm
Height of Written Area 400 mm
Width of Written Area 270 – 280 mm
Number of Columns 1
Width of Columns 300 – 310 mm
Number of Lines 6
Line Height 15 mm
Current Condition
Dimensions 56 cm
Book Decoration and Musical Notation
Persons: For the attribution of the illumination to Neri da Rimini, date, and list of 11 other leaves from the same antiphonary (originally in 2 vols.; this leaf from the temporale) see Palladino, 18-19.
Description
The initial letter "I" on the recto, within a foliated part-border, is historiated, showing Christ with a kneeling prophet (?), in gouache and gold leaf with tooling.
Bibliography
De Ricci, 1706 (D.28A)
G. Dauner, Neri da Rimini und die Rimineser Miniaturmalerei des frühen Trecento (1998), 226
P. Palladino, Treasures of a lost art: Italian manuscript painting of the Middle Ages and Renaissance (Metropolitan Museum of Art 2003), no. 5c