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Property / title as recorded: Psalter, canticles, and litany : in Latin]. / rank | |||||||||||||||
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Property / associated name as recorded: Barrois, Joseph, approximately 1785-1855 / rank | |||||||||||||||
Property / associated name as recorded: Barrois, Joseph, approximately 1785-1855 / qualifier | |||||||||||||||
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Property / associated name as recorded: Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of, 1797-1878 / rank | |||||||||||||||
Property / associated name as recorded: Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of, 1797-1878 / qualifier | |||||||||||||||
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Property / associated name as recorded: Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962 / rank | |||||||||||||||
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Property / associated name as recorded: Chartreuse de Valenciennes / rank | |||||||||||||||
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Property / subject as recorded: Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Massachusetts--Boston / rank | |||||||||||||||
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Property / note: Secundo folio: ...tis in cordibus vestris... / rank | |||||||||||||||
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Property / note: Collation: Parchment codex, fol. i (modern paper) + 73 + i (modern paper) ; 1-88, 910−1. Final leaf cancelled. Lacking unknown number of leaves between fol. 64 and 65 (between quires 8 and 9) ; modern arabic pencil foliation, upper outer corner each page. / rank | |||||||||||||||
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Property / note: Decoration: 4-line blue and red "puzzle" initials with red and green filigree into margins, at major divisions (Ps. 1, 26, 38, 52, 68, 80, 95, 109); versal initials alternate red and blue, all other Psalms begin with 2-line initials alternating blue with red filigree. / rank | |||||||||||||||
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Property / note: Binding: 19th-century green sheep over pasteboard, spine gilt-stamped in compartments, "Liber/ Beatae/ Mariae/ de/ Macourt"; edges darkened, possibly by smoke; paper pastedowns and endleaves. Housed in a custom black cloth clamshell, "Marie de Macourt" on gilt red leather spin label, marble-lined inside. / rank | |||||||||||||||
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Property / note: Origin: Written in France in the mid-fourteenth century, possibly for the Carthusians of Valenciennes (Later Our Lady in Macourt); 16th-century inscription, fol. 1v, reads "Liber domus Beatae Mariae De macourt ordinis carthusia prope valencenas in Hanonia." / rank | |||||||||||||||
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Property / note: Provenance: Owned by Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Barrois (1784-1855), his 1849 sale (n. 275) to Bertram, the Fourth Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878) (Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts 9471; green Barrois label on spine). / rank | |||||||||||||||
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Property / note: Immediate source of acquisition: Ashburnham sale, Sotheby's London, 10 June 1901, lot 496 to Sydney Cockerell for the Boston Public Library (Cockerell's notes and Sotheby's lot number inside front cover). / rank | |||||||||||||||
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Property / note: Call number: MS q Med.6. / rank | |||||||||||||||
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Property / note: Bibliography: Zoltan Haraszti, "Medieval Manuscripts in the Library," More Books III (1928): 58 (this description pasted to the front flyleaf). Consult curatorial file for futher information. / rank | |||||||||||||||
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Psalter, canticles, and litany : in Latin]. | |||||||||||||||
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Barrois, Joseph, approximately 1785-1855 | |||||||||||||||
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Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of, 1797-1878 | |||||||||||||||
Property / associated name as recorded: Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of, 1797-1878 / rank | |||||||||||||||
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Property / associated name as recorded: Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of, 1797-1878 / qualifier | |||||||||||||||
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Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962 | |||||||||||||||
Property / associated name as recorded: Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962 / rank | |||||||||||||||
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Property / associated name as recorded: Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962 / qualifier | |||||||||||||||
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Chartreuse de Valenciennes | |||||||||||||||
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Manuscripts, Medieval--France | |||||||||||||||
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--France | |||||||||||||||
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Massachusetts--Boston | |||||||||||||||
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Property / subject as recorded: Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Massachusetts--Boston / qualifier | |||||||||||||||
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Property / subject as recorded: Manuscripts, Medieval--Massachusetts--Boston / qualifier | |||||||||||||||
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between 1275 and 1299 | |||||||||||||||
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century: 13. century
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earliest date: 1275Gregorian
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latest date: 1299Gregorian
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Extent: 73 leaves : parchment ; 142 x 95 (97 x 65) mm | |||||||||||||||
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Ms. codex. | |||||||||||||||
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In Latin. | |||||||||||||||
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Title devised by cataloger. | |||||||||||||||
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Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based primarily on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis. | |||||||||||||||
Property / note: Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based primarily on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis. / rank | |||||||||||||||
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Secundo folio: ...tis in cordibus vestris... | |||||||||||||||
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Collation: Parchment codex, fol. i (modern paper) + 73 + i (modern paper) ; 1-88, 910−1. Final leaf cancelled. Lacking unknown number of leaves between fol. 64 and 65 (between quires 8 and 9) ; modern arabic pencil foliation, upper outer corner each page. | |||||||||||||||
Property / note: Collation: Parchment codex, fol. i (modern paper) + 73 + i (modern paper) ; 1-88, 910−1. Final leaf cancelled. Lacking unknown number of leaves between fol. 64 and 65 (between quires 8 and 9) ; modern arabic pencil foliation, upper outer corner each page. / rank | |||||||||||||||
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Script: Written in an early gothic bookhand in black ink. | |||||||||||||||
Property / note: Script: Written in an early gothic bookhand in black ink. / rank | |||||||||||||||
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Layout: 1 column, 26 lines. Bounding and ruling lines in light plummet. | |||||||||||||||
Property / note: Layout: 1 column, 26 lines. Bounding and ruling lines in light plummet. / rank | |||||||||||||||
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Decoration: 4-line blue and red "puzzle" initials with red and green filigree into margins, at major divisions (Ps. 1, 26, 38, 52, 68, 80, 95, 109); versal initials alternate red and blue, all other Psalms begin with 2-line initials alternating blue with red filigree. | |||||||||||||||
Property / note: Decoration: 4-line blue and red "puzzle" initials with red and green filigree into margins, at major divisions (Ps. 1, 26, 38, 52, 68, 80, 95, 109); versal initials alternate red and blue, all other Psalms begin with 2-line initials alternating blue with red filigree. / rank | |||||||||||||||
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Binding: 19th-century green sheep over pasteboard, spine gilt-stamped in compartments, "Liber/ Beatae/ Mariae/ de/ Macourt"; edges darkened, possibly by smoke; paper pastedowns and endleaves. Housed in a custom black cloth clamshell, "Marie de Macourt" on gilt red leather spin label, marble-lined inside. | |||||||||||||||
Property / note: Binding: 19th-century green sheep over pasteboard, spine gilt-stamped in compartments, "Liber/ Beatae/ Mariae/ de/ Macourt"; edges darkened, possibly by smoke; paper pastedowns and endleaves. Housed in a custom black cloth clamshell, "Marie de Macourt" on gilt red leather spin label, marble-lined inside. / rank | |||||||||||||||
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Origin: Written in France in the mid-fourteenth century, possibly for the Carthusians of Valenciennes (Later Our Lady in Macourt); 16th-century inscription, fol. 1v, reads "Liber domus Beatae Mariae De macourt ordinis carthusia prope valencenas in Hanonia." | |||||||||||||||
Property / note: Origin: Written in France in the mid-fourteenth century, possibly for the Carthusians of Valenciennes (Later Our Lady in Macourt); 16th-century inscription, fol. 1v, reads "Liber domus Beatae Mariae De macourt ordinis carthusia prope valencenas in Hanonia." / rank | |||||||||||||||
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Provenance: Owned by Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Barrois (1784-1855), his 1849 sale (n. 275) to Bertram, the Fourth Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878) (Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts 9471; green Barrois label on spine). | |||||||||||||||
Property / note: Provenance: Owned by Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Barrois (1784-1855), his 1849 sale (n. 275) to Bertram, the Fourth Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878) (Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts 9471; green Barrois label on spine). / rank | |||||||||||||||
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Immediate source of acquisition: Ashburnham sale, Sotheby's London, 10 June 1901, lot 496 to Sydney Cockerell for the Boston Public Library (Cockerell's notes and Sotheby's lot number inside front cover). | |||||||||||||||
Property / note: Immediate source of acquisition: Ashburnham sale, Sotheby's London, 10 June 1901, lot 496 to Sydney Cockerell for the Boston Public Library (Cockerell's notes and Sotheby's lot number inside front cover). / rank | |||||||||||||||
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Call number: MS q Med.6. | |||||||||||||||
Property / note: Call number: MS q Med.6. / rank | |||||||||||||||
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Former call number: MS G.38.45. | |||||||||||||||
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Bibliography: Zoltan Haraszti, "Medieval Manuscripts in the Library," More Books III (1928): 58 (this description pasted to the front flyleaf). Consult curatorial file for futher information. | |||||||||||||||
Property / note: Bibliography: Zoltan Haraszti, "Medieval Manuscripts in the Library," More Books III (1928): 58 (this description pasted to the front flyleaf). Consult curatorial file for futher information. / rank | |||||||||||||||
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4 December 2023
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Latest revision as of 20:38, 18 March 2024
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Boston Public Library (8444909, MS q Med.6)
Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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English | Psalter, canticles, and litany : in Latin]. (DS3542) |
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Boston Public Library (8444909, MS q Med.6) |
Statements
28 November 2023
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Psalter, canticles, and litany : in Latin].
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Barrois, Joseph, approximately 1785-1855
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Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of, 1797-1878
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Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962
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Chartreuse de Valenciennes
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--France
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Massachusetts--Boston
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Manuscripts, Medieval--Massachusetts--Boston
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between 1275 and 1299
13. century
1275Gregorian
1299Gregorian
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Extent: 73 leaves : parchment ; 142 x 95 (97 x 65) mm
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Ms. codex.
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In Latin.
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Title devised by cataloger.
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Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based primarily on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
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Secundo folio: ...tis in cordibus vestris...
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Collation: Parchment codex, fol. i (modern paper) + 73 + i (modern paper) ; 1-88, 910−1. Final leaf cancelled. Lacking unknown number of leaves between fol. 64 and 65 (between quires 8 and 9) ; modern arabic pencil foliation, upper outer corner each page.
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Script: Written in an early gothic bookhand in black ink.
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Layout: 1 column, 26 lines. Bounding and ruling lines in light plummet.
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Decoration: 4-line blue and red "puzzle" initials with red and green filigree into margins, at major divisions (Ps. 1, 26, 38, 52, 68, 80, 95, 109); versal initials alternate red and blue, all other Psalms begin with 2-line initials alternating blue with red filigree.
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Binding: 19th-century green sheep over pasteboard, spine gilt-stamped in compartments, "Liber/ Beatae/ Mariae/ de/ Macourt"; edges darkened, possibly by smoke; paper pastedowns and endleaves. Housed in a custom black cloth clamshell, "Marie de Macourt" on gilt red leather spin label, marble-lined inside.
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Origin: Written in France in the mid-fourteenth century, possibly for the Carthusians of Valenciennes (Later Our Lady in Macourt); 16th-century inscription, fol. 1v, reads "Liber domus Beatae Mariae De macourt ordinis carthusia prope valencenas in Hanonia."
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Provenance: Owned by Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Barrois (1784-1855), his 1849 sale (n. 275) to Bertram, the Fourth Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878) (Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts 9471; green Barrois label on spine).
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Immediate source of acquisition: Ashburnham sale, Sotheby's London, 10 June 1901, lot 496 to Sydney Cockerell for the Boston Public Library (Cockerell's notes and Sotheby's lot number inside front cover).
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Call number: MS q Med.6.
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Former call number: MS G.38.45.
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Bibliography: Zoltan Haraszti, "Medieval Manuscripts in the Library," More Books III (1928): 58 (this description pasted to the front flyleaf). Consult curatorial file for futher information.
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