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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Boston Public Library (8444898, MS q Med.285)
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| English | Psalter and breviary : Dominican use : in Latin]. (DS3531) |
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Boston Public Library (8444898, MS q Med.285) |
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28 November 2023
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Psalter and breviary : Dominican use : in Latin].
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Sokol Books Ltd
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Massachusetts--Boston
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Manuscripts, Medieval--Massachusetts--Boston
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between 1300? and 1500?
14. century
15. century
1300Gregorian
1499Gregorian
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Extent: 218 leaves : parchment ; 68 x 45 (approximately 52 x 36 to 38) mm bound to 7 cm
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Ms. composite codex.
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In Latin.
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Title devised by cataloger; place and date conjectured from script and decoration.
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Collation: Parchment, fol. ii (modern paper) + 218 + fol. ii (modern paper) ; 1 28(-1) 38 48(-4, 5) 5-78 88(-5) 9-138 148(-7, 8); 1516 1622(+1 fol.) 178 1822 1910 2022 218 2216?(-4, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16) ; BPL pencil foliation in upper-right margin of first part, lower-right margin of second part, neither accounting for missing leaves, these numbers used here for reference.
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The psalter lacks all of the calendar except for a single leaf (June-July); an indeterminate number of leaves at the beginning of the main text containing psalms 1-7 and the first verse of psalm 8 (i.e, all before fol. 2, quire 2); a bifolium containing psalm 37 and the first verse of psalm 38 (in quire 4); a single leaf containing psalm 80 (in quire 8); and two leaves after the litany (in...
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Layout: Part 1, fol. 1-99 (through quire 14): 52 x 36 mm, double columns, 24 lines, most leaves ruled in red, pricking in outer margins.
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Layout: Part 2, fol. 100-218 (quires 15-22): 52 x 38 mm, double columns, 26 lines, ruled in plummet after fol. 119, pricking in outer margins.
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Script (part 1): copied by at least two scribes writing in gothic cursive (cursiva formata): scribe 1, fol. 1-5 (distinguished by the lowercase "r" without a foot and a rounded bow in lowercase "e"); scribe 2, fol. 5-99 (in darker ink and with a separate stroke forming the foot of lowercase "r" and an angular lowercase "e"). Rubricated in red, with guide letters.
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Script (part 2): copied by two scribes writing in northern textualis (libraria/formata) in brown and black ink: scribe 1, fol. 100-118 (brown ink); scribe 2, fol. 119-218 (black ink). Rubricated in blue and red with red, blue, and purple pen flourishes.
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Decoration: in part 1, four-line initials in gold over blue and pink grounds, with flourishes into the margins at each division of the psalter.
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Binding: Bound in ca. 19th-century green goatskin, gilt, with painted floral tooling and a blue crucifix on both covers.
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Origin: The psalter was copied in northern Europe, perhaps France or Flanders, during the 15th century. The breviary was also copied in northern Europe. Based on a series of uniformly written liturgical notes in both the psalter and the breviary (see provenance note), the two separate parts of this volume were apparently brought together by the 16th century for the use a Dominican friar.
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Provenance: Occasional contemporary additions and annotations to the second part. A single early hand leaving scattered liturgical notes in the upper margins of both parts, e.g., "feria v ad vesperas," "ad nonas," etc. "Salomon" inscribed in a ca. 18th-century[?] hand in the outer margin of fol. 86v, and "Ducre[?]" in the lower margin of 174. On fol. 1: "Charles Stillet[?]" Dealer's notes...
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Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased from Sokol Books, London, in January, 2022.
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4 December 2023
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