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
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De Ricci, 1706 (D.28A)
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G. Dauner, Neri da Rimini und die Rimineser Miniaturmalerei des frühen Trecento (1998), 226
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P. Palladino, Treasures of a lost art: Italian manuscript painting of the Middle Ages and Renaissance (Metropolitan Museum of Art 2003), no. 5c