Epistles : in Latin]. (DS3356) (Q16850): Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
DigScrAdmin (talk | contribs) (Changed label, description and/or aliases in en, and other parts) |
(Created claim: dated (P26): Non-dated (Q15), #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1710791529583) |
||
| (One intermediate revision by the same user not shown) | |||
| label / en | label / en | ||
Epistles : in Latin]. ( | Epistles : in Latin]. (DS3356) | ||
| Property / dated | |||
| Property / dated: Non-dated / rank | |||
Normal rank | |||
Latest revision as of 19:59, 18 March 2024
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Boston Public Library (8444689, MS f Med.78)
- Epistles
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | Epistles : in Latin]. (DS3356) |
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Boston Public Library (8444689, MS f Med.78) |
|
Statements
28 November 2023
0 references
Epistles : in Latin].
0 references
Epistles
0 references
Brick Row Bookshop
0 references
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Italy
0 references
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Massachusetts--Boston
0 references
Manuscripts, Medieval--Massachusetts--Boston
0 references
between 1425 and 1475
15. century
1435Gregorian
1475Gregorian
0 references
Extent: 321 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 344 x 245 (253 x 161) mm
0 references
Ms. codex.
0 references
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
0 references
Secundo folio: Ad marcellam de diapsalma ...
0 references
Collation: Parchment, fol. ii + 321 + ii ; 1-3110 3210+1 (fol. 321 is a tipped-in singleton) ; some catchwords preserved in extreme lower right corner of final verso. Contemporary Roman numerals in brown ink, upper right recto, numbers fol. 3 as "i" and so reaches "cccxix" instead of 321. Modern arabic foliation in pencil, upper outer corner of each page.
0 references
Layout: Two columns, 44 lines. Vertical bounding lines in blind or light plummet.
0 references
Script: Written in a humanistic bookhand in brown ink with red rubrics.
0 references
Decoration: Each epistle begins with a three-line epigraphic capital alternating blue with red harping and penwork or red with purple. Seven-line white vine initial in gold on colors on fol. 3, extending full height of inner margin with blank armorial within a green wreath with white vine extensions in gold and colors in lower margin.
0 references
Binding: Modern blind-stamped calf over pasteboard, gilt-fillet board edges and turn-ins, all edges gilt, spine gilt in compartments, "S. HIERONYMUS/ EPISTOLAE" and "MS/ XV. SAEC." Vellum pastedowns and endleaves, decorative head and tailbands, by J. and J. Leighton.
0 references
Origin: Written in Italy in the mid-15th century. The sequence of epistles in collections such as this varies significantly from manuscript to manuscript; the order in the present copy is very similar to that in several other 15th-century Italian collections: London, British Library Burney 322; Florence, Bibl. Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. XIX, cod. 12; and Milan, Bibl. Ambrosiana, C.250.Inf. The...
0 references
Provenance: Belonged to Henry White, his sale at Sotheby's London 21 April 1902, lot 1057. Sold by Leighton, 1912, lot 139. Sold by Sotheby's London on 4 March 1920 and again on 11 April 1938.
0 references
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased in 1939 from The Brick Row Bookshop.
0 references
Call number: MS f Med.78.
0 references
Former call number: MS 1484.
0 references
Bibliography: More Books/BPL Quarterly XIV (1939): 229; B. Lambert, Bibliotheca Hieronymiana Manuscripta (Steenbrugis, 1969): I:144 (nr. 0)
0 references
4 December 2023
0 references