Gradual and Antiphonal (Ambrosian) — 1399; Italian, Milan
MS. Lat. liturg. a. 4
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Description
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Title
Gradual and Antiphonal (Ambrosian) — 1399; Italian, Milan
Shelfmark
MS. Lat. liturg. a. 4
Place of origin
Italian, Milan
Date
1399
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
i + 380 (379) + i fol., fol. 283 missing.
Hands
Written by Fatius de Castoldis, beneficialis of S. Eufemia. For other MSS. written by him see Colophons de mss. ii, nos. 4036–7, and L. Betrami, L’Arte negli aredi sacri della Lombardia… 28, pl.7–11.
Decoration
Fine miniature (partly damaged).
Fine historiated borders.
Fine historiated initials; a large historiated initial of St. Ambrose, baptising the kneeling figure of a canon (fol. 1)
Penwork initials with grotesque faces.
Rubrics.
Musical notation
Square notation on 7 staves of 4 black lines and coloured F and C lines, 380 275
Binding
Contemporary binding (c. 1400) of boards covered with metal plates and bosses.
Acquisition
Bought from him, 25 July, 1889, for £12.
Provenance
Fol. 380v: 'Expletum anno domini Millesimo trecentesimo nonagesimo nono Vltimo Januarii per presbyterum Fatium de Castoldis benefitiatum ecclesie sancte eufymie mediolani. Factum in honore sancti ambrosij maioris mediolani. Eram annorum xxxx quando conpleui hunc librum.'
Arms of Bossi of Milan, with initials 'B.B.', perhaps over earlier arms.
Rev. G. J. Chester
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