[Recto] [a. Michael archangelus venit in ad]iutorium populo dei./ R. Factum est silentium.../...[Verso] et virtus omnipo[tenti deo].
Notes:
Ms. leaf.
St. Michael (29 September).
Title devised by cataloger.
Origin: Written in Italy, possibly Bologna, in the mid-fourteenth century, from the same manuscript as BPL pb. Med. 171, 181 and 189.
Catchword in lower center margin of verso. 16th-century foliation upper outer corner of the recto, "70;" 17th-century arabic pagination, outer center margin of each side, "139" and "140."
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Notes (acquisition):
Source of acquisition: Acquired in 1957 from Olschki, Florence.
Notes (citation):
Bond, W.H. Supplement to the Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, p. 222
Notes (object):
Script: Written in a Gothic rotunda in black ink with red rubrics.
Layout: 1 column, 6 staves. Bounding and writing lines in light plummet, outer bounding line doubled. Square Gregorian notation on a four-line red staff.
Decoration: Recto: 2-staff high historiated initial F in gold and colors with thin acanthus and tendrils into margins, Archangel Michael defeating the dragon.
Binding: Housed in an oversize folder.
Identifier:
06_01_016280-06_01_016281
Call #:
RARE BKS MS pb Med. 191
BPL MS 1617 (no longer used)
