1. Off[e]r[torium]. Lux fulgebit ... / In epyphania domini ... / Ecce advenit dominator ... / v. Deus iuditium regi da ... / R/ [verso] Omnes de sabba ... / v. Surge et illumine ... / ... super te orta est.
Notes:
Ms. leaf.
Title devised by cataloger.
Origin: Written in Bologna ca. 1275. DeLeeuw notes attribution of the initial to the circle of the Master of the Bible of Gerona. From the same manuscript as BPL pb Med.178.
Formerly cataloged under call number BPL MS 1595.
Currently cataloged under call number MS pb Med. 170.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis and by Patricia DeLeeuw's entry in the Beyond Words catalog (see bibliography)
Notes (acquisition):
Purchased by the BPL from La Bibliofilia, Milan, in 1954.
Notes (citation):
For published descriptions, see: More Books/BPL Quarterly VII (1955), p. 75; Netzer, N. ed., Secular/Sacred 11th-16th Century Works from the Boston Public Library and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston College, 2006), no. 48; Jeffrey Hamburger, et al., eds. Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections. (Chestnut Hill: McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2016), no. 147.
Bond, W.H. Supplement to the Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, page 220
Notes (object):
Layout: One column, seven staves. Bounding and writing lines in blind. Square Gregorian notation on a four-line red staff, some stems.
Script: Written in a Gothic rotunda in black ink with red rubrics.
Decoration: On the recto, a two-staff high floriate initial [E] on blue with white filigree, historiated with the Adoration of the Magi: the Virgin sits at the left, the Christ-child standing on her lap, Joseph behind; the three Magi kneel at the right, the frontmost presenting his gift. Original Roman foliation, upper margin verso, in alternating red and blue epigraphic capitals, "xxvi". Interlinear numbers above incipits refer to the folio on which the full text can be found.
Binding: Housed in an oversized folder.
Notes (language):
In Latin.
Identifier:
06_01_014526-06_01_014527
Call #:
RARE BKS MS pb Med. 170
BPL MS 1595 (no longer used)