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Property / title as recorded
De re uxoria].
 
Property / title as recorded: De re uxoria]. / rank
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Property / associated name as recorded
Barbaro, Francesco, 1390-1454
 
Property / associated name as recorded: Barbaro, Francesco, 1390-1454 / rank
Normal rank
 
Property / associated name as recorded: Barbaro, Francesco, 1390-1454 / qualifier
 
Property / associated name as recorded
Barrois, Joseph, approximately 1785-1855
 
Property / associated name as recorded: Barrois, Joseph, approximately 1785-1855 / rank
Normal rank
 
Property / associated name as recorded: Barrois, Joseph, approximately 1785-1855 / qualifier
 
Property / associated name as recorded
Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of, 1797-1878
 
Property / associated name as recorded: Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of, 1797-1878 / rank
Normal rank
 
Property / associated name as recorded: Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of, 1797-1878 / qualifier
 
Property / associated name as recorded
Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962
 
Property / associated name as recorded: Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962 / rank
Normal rank
 
Property / associated name as recorded: Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962 / qualifier
 
Property / genre as recorded
Humanistic scripts
 
Property / genre as recorded: Humanistic scripts / rank
Normal rank
 
Property / genre as recorded: Humanistic scripts / qualifier
 
Property / genre as recorded
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Italy
 
Property / genre as recorded: Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Italy / rank
Normal rank
 
Property / genre as recorded: Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Italy / qualifier
 
Property / genre as recorded: Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Italy / qualifier
 
Property / genre as recorded
Inscriptions
 
Property / genre as recorded: Inscriptions / rank
Normal rank
 
Property / genre as recorded: Inscriptions / qualifier
 
Property / genre as recorded
Manuscripts, Medieval--Italy
 
Property / genre as recorded: Manuscripts, Medieval--Italy / rank
Normal rank
 
Property / genre as recorded: Manuscripts, Medieval--Italy / qualifier
 
Property / genre as recorded: Manuscripts, Medieval--Italy / qualifier
 
Property / genre as recorded
Illuminations
 
Property / genre as recorded: Illuminations / rank
Normal rank
 
Property / genre as recorded: Illuminations / qualifier
 
Property / genre as recorded
Goatskin bindings
 
Property / genre as recorded: Goatskin bindings / rank
Normal rank
 
Property / genre as recorded: Goatskin bindings / qualifier
 
Property / subject as recorded
Wives--Conduct of life--Early works to 1800
 
Property / subject as recorded: Wives--Conduct of life--Early works to 1800 / rank
Normal rank
 
Property / subject as recorded: Wives--Conduct of life--Early works to 1800 / qualifier
 
Property / subject as recorded: Wives--Conduct of life--Early works to 1800 / qualifier
 
Property / subject as recorded: Wives--Conduct of life--Early works to 1800 / qualifier
 
Property / subject as recorded
Manuscripts, Medieval--Massachusetts--Boston
 
Property / subject as recorded: Manuscripts, Medieval--Massachusetts--Boston / rank
Normal rank
 
Property / subject as recorded: Manuscripts, Medieval--Massachusetts--Boston / qualifier
 
Property / subject as recorded: Manuscripts, Medieval--Massachusetts--Boston / qualifier
 
Property / subject as recorded
Marriage--Early works to 1800
 
Property / subject as recorded: Marriage--Early works to 1800 / rank
Normal rank
 
Property / subject as recorded: Marriage--Early works to 1800 / qualifier
 
Property / subject as recorded: Marriage--Early works to 1800 / qualifier
 
Property / subject as recorded
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Massachusetts--Boston
 
Property / subject as recorded: Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Massachusetts--Boston / rank
Normal rank
 
Property / subject as recorded: Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Massachusetts--Boston / qualifier
 
Property / subject as recorded: Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Massachusetts--Boston / qualifier
 
Property / subject as recorded
Women--Early works to 1800
 
Property / subject as recorded: Women--Early works to 1800 / rank
Normal rank
 
Property / subject as recorded: Women--Early works to 1800 / qualifier
 
Property / subject as recorded: Women--Early works to 1800 / qualifier
 
Property / language as recorded
In Latin
 
Property / language as recorded: In Latin / rank
Normal rank
 
Property / language as recorded: In Latin / qualifier
 
Property / production date as recorded
between 1450 and 1499
 
Property / production date as recorded: between 1450 and 1499 / rank
Normal rank
 
Property / production date as recorded: between 1450 and 1499 / qualifier
century: 15. century
Timestamp+1401-01-01T00:00:00Z
Timezone+00:00
CalendarGregorian
Precision100 years
Before0
After0
 
Property / production date as recorded: between 1450 and 1499 / qualifier
 
Property / production date as recorded: between 1450 and 1499 / qualifier
earliest date: 1450Gregorian
Timestamp+1450-01-01T00:00:00Z
Timezone+00:00
CalendarGregorian
Precision1 year
Before0
After0
 
Property / production date as recorded: between 1450 and 1499 / qualifier
latest date: 1499Gregorian
Timestamp+1499-12-31T00:00:00Z
Timezone+00:00
CalendarGregorian
Precision1 year
Before0
After0
 
Property / production place as recorded
Italy?]
 
Property / production place as recorded: Italy?] / rank
Normal rank
 
Property / production place as recorded: Italy?] / qualifier
 
Property / physical description
Extent: 82 leaves : parchment ; 203 x 140 (130 x 80) mm
 
Property / physical description: Extent: 82 leaves : parchment ; 203 x 140 (130 x 80) mm / rank
Normal rank
 
Property / material as recorded
parchment
 
Property / material as recorded: parchment / rank
Normal rank
 
Property / material as recorded: parchment / qualifier
 
Property / note
Ms. codex.
 
Property / note: Ms. codex. / rank
Normal rank
 
Property / note
Title supplied by cataloger.
 
Property / note: Title supplied by cataloger. / rank
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Property / note
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
 
Property / note: Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis. / rank
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Property / note
Secundo folio: ...tibi pretiosa vestis...
 
Property / note: Secundo folio: ...tibi pretiosa vestis... / rank
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Property / note
Collation: Parchment, fol. i (contemporary parchment) + 80 + i (contemporary parchment) ; 1-810 ; catchwords in lower right corner, final verso of each quire, vertical and decorative; catchword on fol. 72v doesn't match the top of fol. 73, but there is no text loss. 18th century (?) foliation upper right corner of each recto in brown ink, skips fol. 57 so reaches 83 instead of 82 (flyleaves...
 
Property / note: Collation: Parchment, fol. i (contemporary parchment) + 80 + i (contemporary parchment) ; 1-810 ; catchwords in lower right corner, final verso of each quire, vertical and decorative; catchword on fol. 72v doesn't match the top of fol. 73, but there is no text loss. 18th century (?) foliation upper right corner of each recto in brown ink, skips fol. 57 so reaches 83 instead of 82 (flyleaves... / rank
Normal rank
 
Property / note
Layout: 1 column, 21 lines. Bounding and writing lines in blind or light plummet.
 
Property / note: Layout: 1 column, 21 lines. Bounding and writing lines in blind or light plummet. / rank
Normal rank
 
Property / note
Script: Written in a humanistic bookhand in brown ink with red (somewhat faded) rubrics.
 
Property / note: Script: Written in a humanistic bookhand in brown ink with red (somewhat faded) rubrics. / rank
Normal rank
 
Property / note
Decoration: 7-line initial on fol. 1 in gold on colors with white-vine elements, historiated with Lorenzo and Ginevra facing one another as if exchanging vows; 2-line epigraphic capitals throughout, alternating blue and red.
 
Property / note: Decoration: 7-line initial on fol. 1 in gold on colors with white-vine elements, historiated with Lorenzo and Ginevra facing one another as if exchanging vows; 2-line epigraphic capitals throughout, alternating blue and red. / rank
Normal rank
 
Property / note
Binding: Early/contemporary blind-stamped goatskin over boards, evidence of clasps formerly present on 3 edges, rebacked with original spine laid down, vellum pastedowns; housed in brown cloth clamshell box with "Francesco Barbaro" gilt on red lettering-piece.
 
Property / note: Binding: Early/contemporary blind-stamped goatskin over boards, evidence of clasps formerly present on 3 edges, rebacked with original spine laid down, vellum pastedowns; housed in brown cloth clamshell box with "Francesco Barbaro" gilt on red lettering-piece. / rank
Normal rank
 
Property / note
Origin: Produced in northern(?) Italy in 2nd half of 15th century.
 
Property / note: Origin: Produced in northern(?) Italy in 2nd half of 15th century. / rank
Normal rank
 
Property / note
Provenance: Owned by Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Barrois (1784-1855), his 1849 sale (n. 292) to Bertram, the Fourth Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878) (SDBM 9508; green Barrois label on spine).
 
Property / note: Provenance: Owned by Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Barrois (1784-1855), his 1849 sale (n. 292) to Bertram, the Fourth Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878) (SDBM 9508; green Barrois label on spine). / rank
Normal rank
 
Property / note
Immediate source of acquisition: Ashburnham sale, Sotheby's London, 10 June 1901, lot 623 to Sydney Cockerell for the Boston Public Library (Cockerell's notes and Sotheby's lot number inside front cover). Bookplate inside front cover, embossed BPL stamp at top of fol. 1.
 
Property / note: Immediate source of acquisition: Ashburnham sale, Sotheby's London, 10 June 1901, lot 623 to Sydney Cockerell for the Boston Public Library (Cockerell's notes and Sotheby's lot number inside front cover). Bookplate inside front cover, embossed BPL stamp at top of fol. 1. / rank
Normal rank
 
Property / note
Call number: MS q Med.24.
 
Property / note: Call number: MS q Med.24. / rank
Normal rank
 
Property / note
Former call number: MS G.38.34.
 
Property / note: Former call number: MS G.38.34. / rank
Normal rank
 
Property / note
Bibliography: N. Netzer, ed., Secular sacred: 11th-16th century works from the Boston Public Library and the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston College, 2006), no. 54; Zoltan Haraszti, "Medieval Manuscripts in The Library," More Books III (1928): 67 (this description pasted to front flyleaf)
 
Property / note: Bibliography: N. Netzer, ed., Secular sacred: 11th-16th century works from the Boston Public Library and the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston College, 2006), no. 54; Zoltan Haraszti, "Medieval Manuscripts in The Library," More Books III (1928): 67 (this description pasted to front flyleaf) / rank
Normal rank
 
Property / date last updated
28 November 2023
Timestamp+2023-11-28T00:00:00Z
Timezone+00:00
CalendarGregorian
Precision1 day
Before0
After0
 
Property / date last updated: 28 November 2023 / rank
Normal rank
 
Property / IIIF manifest
 
Property / IIIF manifest: https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/cz30sv77c/manifest / rank
Normal rank
 
Property / title as recorded
 
De re uxoria].
Property / title as recorded: De re uxoria]. / rank
 
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Property / associated name as recorded
 
Barbaro, Francesco, 1390-1454
Property / associated name as recorded: Barbaro, Francesco, 1390-1454 / rank
 
Normal rank
Property / associated name as recorded: Barbaro, Francesco, 1390-1454 / qualifier
 
Property / associated name as recorded: Barbaro, Francesco, 1390-1454 / qualifier
 
Property / associated name as recorded
 
Barrois, Joseph, approximately 1785-1855
Property / associated name as recorded: Barrois, Joseph, approximately 1785-1855 / rank
 
Normal rank
Property / associated name as recorded: Barrois, Joseph, approximately 1785-1855 / qualifier
 
Property / associated name as recorded: Barrois, Joseph, approximately 1785-1855 / qualifier
 
Property / associated name as recorded
 
Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of, 1797-1878
Property / associated name as recorded: Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of, 1797-1878 / rank
 
Normal rank
Property / associated name as recorded: Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of, 1797-1878 / qualifier
 
Property / associated name as recorded: Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of, 1797-1878 / qualifier
 
Property / associated name as recorded
 
Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962
Property / associated name as recorded: Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962 / rank
 
Normal rank
Property / associated name as recorded: Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962 / qualifier
 
Property / associated name as recorded: Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962 / qualifier
 
Property / genre as recorded
 
Humanistic scripts
Property / genre as recorded: Humanistic scripts / rank
 
Normal rank
Property / genre as recorded: Humanistic scripts / qualifier
 
Property / genre as recorded
 
Inscriptions
Property / genre as recorded: Inscriptions / rank
 
Normal rank
Property / genre as recorded: Inscriptions / qualifier
 
Property / genre as recorded
 
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Italy
Property / genre as recorded: Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Italy / rank
 
Normal rank
Property / genre as recorded: Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Italy / qualifier
 
Property / genre as recorded: Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Italy / qualifier
 
Property / genre as recorded
 
Illuminations
Property / genre as recorded: Illuminations / rank
 
Normal rank
Property / genre as recorded: Illuminations / qualifier
 
Property / genre as recorded
 
Manuscripts, Medieval--Italy
Property / genre as recorded: Manuscripts, Medieval--Italy / rank
 
Normal rank
Property / genre as recorded: Manuscripts, Medieval--Italy / qualifier
 
Property / genre as recorded: Manuscripts, Medieval--Italy / qualifier
 
Property / genre as recorded
 
Goatskin bindings
Property / genre as recorded: Goatskin bindings / rank
 
Normal rank
Property / genre as recorded: Goatskin bindings / qualifier
 
Property / subject as recorded
 
Marriage--Early works to 1800
Property / subject as recorded: Marriage--Early works to 1800 / rank
 
Normal rank
Property / subject as recorded: Marriage--Early works to 1800 / qualifier
 
Property / subject as recorded: Marriage--Early works to 1800 / qualifier
 
Property / subject as recorded
 
Manuscripts, Medieval--Massachusetts--Boston
Property / subject as recorded: Manuscripts, Medieval--Massachusetts--Boston / rank
 
Normal rank
Property / subject as recorded: Manuscripts, Medieval--Massachusetts--Boston / qualifier
 
Property / subject as recorded: Manuscripts, Medieval--Massachusetts--Boston / qualifier
 
Property / subject as recorded
 
Women--Early works to 1800
Property / subject as recorded: Women--Early works to 1800 / rank
 
Normal rank
Property / subject as recorded: Women--Early works to 1800 / qualifier
 
Property / subject as recorded: Women--Early works to 1800 / qualifier
 
Property / subject as recorded
 
Wives--Conduct of life--Early works to 1800
Property / subject as recorded: Wives--Conduct of life--Early works to 1800 / rank
 
Normal rank
Property / subject as recorded: Wives--Conduct of life--Early works to 1800 / qualifier
 
Property / subject as recorded: Wives--Conduct of life--Early works to 1800 / qualifier
 
Property / subject as recorded
 
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Massachusetts--Boston
Property / subject as recorded: Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Massachusetts--Boston / rank
 
Normal rank
Property / subject as recorded: Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Massachusetts--Boston / qualifier
 
Property / subject as recorded: Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Massachusetts--Boston / qualifier
 
Property / language as recorded
 
In Latin
Property / language as recorded: In Latin / rank
 
Normal rank
Property / language as recorded: In Latin / qualifier
 
Property / production date as recorded
 
between 1450 and 1499
Property / production date as recorded: between 1450 and 1499 / rank
 
Normal rank
Property / production date as recorded: between 1450 and 1499 / qualifier
 
century: 15. century
Timestamp+1401-01-01T00:00:00Z
Timezone+00:00
CalendarGregorian
Precision100 years
Before0
After0
Property / production date as recorded: between 1450 and 1499 / qualifier
 
Property / production date as recorded: between 1450 and 1499 / qualifier
 
earliest date: 1450Gregorian
Timestamp+1450-01-01T00:00:00Z
Timezone+00:00
CalendarGregorian
Precision1 year
Before0
After0
Property / production date as recorded: between 1450 and 1499 / qualifier
 
latest date: 1499Gregorian
Timestamp+1499-12-31T00:00:00Z
Timezone+00:00
CalendarGregorian
Precision1 year
Before0
After0
Property / production place as recorded
 
Italy?]
Property / production place as recorded: Italy?] / rank
 
Normal rank
Property / production place as recorded: Italy?] / qualifier
 
Property / physical description
 
Extent: 82 leaves : parchment ; 203 x 140 (130 x 80) mm
Property / physical description: Extent: 82 leaves : parchment ; 203 x 140 (130 x 80) mm / rank
 
Normal rank
Property / material as recorded
 
parchment
Property / material as recorded: parchment / rank
 
Normal rank
Property / material as recorded: parchment / qualifier
 
Property / note
 
Ms. codex.
Property / note: Ms. codex. / rank
 
Normal rank
Property / note
 
Title supplied by cataloger.
Property / note: Title supplied by cataloger. / rank
 
Normal rank
Property / note
 
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Property / note: Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis. / rank
 
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Property / note
 
Secundo folio: ...tibi pretiosa vestis...
Property / note: Secundo folio: ...tibi pretiosa vestis... / rank
 
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Property / note
 
Collation: Parchment, fol. i (contemporary parchment) + 80 + i (contemporary parchment) ; 1-810 ; catchwords in lower right corner, final verso of each quire, vertical and decorative; catchword on fol. 72v doesn't match the top of fol. 73, but there is no text loss. 18th century (?) foliation upper right corner of each recto in brown ink, skips fol. 57 so reaches 83 instead of 82 (flyleaves...
Property / note: Collation: Parchment, fol. i (contemporary parchment) + 80 + i (contemporary parchment) ; 1-810 ; catchwords in lower right corner, final verso of each quire, vertical and decorative; catchword on fol. 72v doesn't match the top of fol. 73, but there is no text loss. 18th century (?) foliation upper right corner of each recto in brown ink, skips fol. 57 so reaches 83 instead of 82 (flyleaves... / rank
 
Normal rank
Property / note
 
Layout: 1 column, 21 lines. Bounding and writing lines in blind or light plummet.
Property / note: Layout: 1 column, 21 lines. Bounding and writing lines in blind or light plummet. / rank
 
Normal rank
Property / note
 
Script: Written in a humanistic bookhand in brown ink with red (somewhat faded) rubrics.
Property / note: Script: Written in a humanistic bookhand in brown ink with red (somewhat faded) rubrics. / rank
 
Normal rank
Property / note
 
Decoration: 7-line initial on fol. 1 in gold on colors with white-vine elements, historiated with Lorenzo and Ginevra facing one another as if exchanging vows; 2-line epigraphic capitals throughout, alternating blue and red.
Property / note: Decoration: 7-line initial on fol. 1 in gold on colors with white-vine elements, historiated with Lorenzo and Ginevra facing one another as if exchanging vows; 2-line epigraphic capitals throughout, alternating blue and red. / rank
 
Normal rank
Property / note
 
Binding: Early/contemporary blind-stamped goatskin over boards, evidence of clasps formerly present on 3 edges, rebacked with original spine laid down, vellum pastedowns; housed in brown cloth clamshell box with "Francesco Barbaro" gilt on red lettering-piece.
Property / note: Binding: Early/contemporary blind-stamped goatskin over boards, evidence of clasps formerly present on 3 edges, rebacked with original spine laid down, vellum pastedowns; housed in brown cloth clamshell box with "Francesco Barbaro" gilt on red lettering-piece. / rank
 
Normal rank
Property / note
 
Origin: Produced in northern(?) Italy in 2nd half of 15th century.
Property / note: Origin: Produced in northern(?) Italy in 2nd half of 15th century. / rank
 
Normal rank
Property / note
 
Provenance: Owned by Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Barrois (1784-1855), his 1849 sale (n. 292) to Bertram, the Fourth Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878) (SDBM 9508; green Barrois label on spine).
Property / note: Provenance: Owned by Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Barrois (1784-1855), his 1849 sale (n. 292) to Bertram, the Fourth Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878) (SDBM 9508; green Barrois label on spine). / rank
 
Normal rank
Property / note
 
Immediate source of acquisition: Ashburnham sale, Sotheby's London, 10 June 1901, lot 623 to Sydney Cockerell for the Boston Public Library (Cockerell's notes and Sotheby's lot number inside front cover). Bookplate inside front cover, embossed BPL stamp at top of fol. 1.
Property / note: Immediate source of acquisition: Ashburnham sale, Sotheby's London, 10 June 1901, lot 623 to Sydney Cockerell for the Boston Public Library (Cockerell's notes and Sotheby's lot number inside front cover). Bookplate inside front cover, embossed BPL stamp at top of fol. 1. / rank
 
Normal rank
Property / note
 
Call number: MS q Med.24.
Property / note: Call number: MS q Med.24. / rank
 
Normal rank
Property / note
 
Former call number: MS G.38.34.
Property / note: Former call number: MS G.38.34. / rank
 
Normal rank
Property / note
 
Bibliography: N. Netzer, ed., Secular sacred: 11th-16th century works from the Boston Public Library and the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston College, 2006), no. 54; Zoltan Haraszti, "Medieval Manuscripts in The Library," More Books III (1928): 67 (this description pasted to front flyleaf)
Property / note: Bibliography: N. Netzer, ed., Secular sacred: 11th-16th century works from the Boston Public Library and the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston College, 2006), no. 54; Zoltan Haraszti, "Medieval Manuscripts in The Library," More Books III (1928): 67 (this description pasted to front flyleaf) / rank
 
Normal rank
Property / date last updated
 
4 December 2023
Timestamp+2023-12-04T00:00:00Z
Timezone+00:00
CalendarGregorian
Precision1 day
Before0
After0
Property / date last updated: 4 December 2023 / rank
 
Normal rank
Property / IIIF manifest
 
Property / IIIF manifest: https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/cz30sv77c/manifest / rank
 
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Property / dated
 
Property / dated: Non-dated / rank
 
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Latest revision as of 00:28, 27 October 2024

Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Boston Public Library (8444869, MS q Med.24)
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De re uxoria]. (DS3502)
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Boston Public Library (8444869, MS q Med.24)

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    28 November 2023
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    De re uxoria].
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    Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Italy
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    Manuscripts, Medieval--Italy
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    Marriage--Early works to 1800
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    Manuscripts, Medieval--Massachusetts--Boston
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    Women--Early works to 1800
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    Wives--Conduct of life--Early works to 1800
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    Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Massachusetts--Boston
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    between 1450 and 1499
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    Extent: 82 leaves : parchment ; 203 x 140 (130 x 80) mm
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    Ms. codex.
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    Title supplied by cataloger.
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    Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
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    Secundo folio: ...tibi pretiosa vestis...
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    Collation: Parchment, fol. i (contemporary parchment) + 80 + i (contemporary parchment) ; 1-810 ; catchwords in lower right corner, final verso of each quire, vertical and decorative; catchword on fol. 72v doesn't match the top of fol. 73, but there is no text loss. 18th century (?) foliation upper right corner of each recto in brown ink, skips fol. 57 so reaches 83 instead of 82 (flyleaves...
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    Layout: 1 column, 21 lines. Bounding and writing lines in blind or light plummet.
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    Script: Written in a humanistic bookhand in brown ink with red (somewhat faded) rubrics.
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    Decoration: 7-line initial on fol. 1 in gold on colors with white-vine elements, historiated with Lorenzo and Ginevra facing one another as if exchanging vows; 2-line epigraphic capitals throughout, alternating blue and red.
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    Binding: Early/contemporary blind-stamped goatskin over boards, evidence of clasps formerly present on 3 edges, rebacked with original spine laid down, vellum pastedowns; housed in brown cloth clamshell box with "Francesco Barbaro" gilt on red lettering-piece.
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    Origin: Produced in northern(?) Italy in 2nd half of 15th century.
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    Provenance: Owned by Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Barrois (1784-1855), his 1849 sale (n. 292) to Bertram, the Fourth Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878) (SDBM 9508; green Barrois label on spine).
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    Immediate source of acquisition: Ashburnham sale, Sotheby's London, 10 June 1901, lot 623 to Sydney Cockerell for the Boston Public Library (Cockerell's notes and Sotheby's lot number inside front cover). Bookplate inside front cover, embossed BPL stamp at top of fol. 1.
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    Call number: MS q Med.24.
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    Former call number: MS G.38.34.
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    Bibliography: N. Netzer, ed., Secular sacred: 11th-16th century works from the Boston Public Library and the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston College, 2006), no. 54; Zoltan Haraszti, "Medieval Manuscripts in The Library," More Books III (1928): 67 (this description pasted to front flyleaf)
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    4 December 2023
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