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Corporate Author:
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Catholic Church.
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Uniform Title:
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Antiphonary (Ms. Free Library of Philadelphia. Lewis E 10)
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Title:
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[Diurnal antiphonary : use of Milan, Ambrosian rite].
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Publication Information:
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[Milan, early 16th century]
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Physical Description:
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216 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 582 x 425 mm.
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General Note:
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Ms. codex.
Title from Leaves of gold.
Collation: Parchment, fol. i (paper)+ 216 (lacking 6) + iv (paper); last gathering of 4 fols. is paper attached by strips of parchment. The strips of parchment contain musical notation.
Layout: Written in 1 column of 36 lines; music on 6 four-line staves in red, black, and yellow ink; hard point ruling; textblock: 404 x 287 mm.
Script: Written by at least two (possibly three) scribes in rotunda script; the bulk of manuscript written by primary scribe, last gathering by a second scribe.
Decoration: 21 historiated initials, 4 decorated initials, 2 excised initials repaired with vellum patch, foliate border decoration throughout. Decoration executed by at least 2 artists. The first hand is a follower of two major Milanese illuminators of the 16th century: Giovan Pietro Birago (active 1472-1513) and Master B.F. (sometimes identified as Francesco Binasco) (cf. Lewis E M 72.11b).
Music: Contains musical notation.
Shelfmark: Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, MS Lewis E10.
Book plate of Oliver Henry Perkins, and a second unidentified bookplate.
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Contents:
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1. fol. 1r-211r: Sanctorale, beginning with the Feast of St. Martin of Tours to the Feast of All Saints. "[rubr.] Antiphonarium diurnam de sanctis monachorum sancti Ambrosii Maioris Milani secundum ritum monasticicum Ambrosianum. In vigilia sancti Martini episcopi ad vesperum. Responsorum cum infantibus."
2. fol. 211v-216v: Commemorations of the Blessed Virgin Mary, St. Ambrosius of Milan, St. Benedict of Nursia, and St. Bernard of Clairvaux.
3. fol. 216v-220v: Antiphons for the Vigil of St. Benedict (added 16th century).
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Corporate Subject:
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Catholic Church Liturgy Texts.
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Subject Term:
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Manuscripts, Latin Medieval and modern Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Renaissance Italy Milan.
Antiphonaries Italy Milan.
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Added Author:
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Master B. F.,
Birago, Giovan Pietro,
Lewis, John Frederick,
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Added Author:
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Free Library of Philadelphia.
Free Library of Philadelphia.
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