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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Boston Public Library (8444786, MS pf Med.97)
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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| English | Ferial psalter : in Latin. (DS3450) |
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Boston Public Library (8444786, MS pf Med.97) |
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28 November 2023
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Ferial psalter : in Latin.
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Matteo, da Milano, active 1492-1523
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Master of the Graduals of San Salvatore in Pavia
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First Master of the Choir Books
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Affaticati, Benedetto
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Cavaleri, Michael
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Cernuschi, Enrico
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Forrer, Robert, 1866-1947
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Jacques Rosenthal (Firm)
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San Sisto (Church : Piacenza, Italy)
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Italy
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Massachusetts--Boston
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Manuscripts, Medieval--Massachusetts--Boston
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ca. 1495
15. century
1495Gregorian
1495Gregorian
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Extent: 190 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 600 x 425 (425 x 300) mm
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Ms. codex.
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In Latin.
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Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
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Secundo folio: ... sponse decus ...
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Collation: Parchment, fol. 190 ; i2+1 (fol. 3 is a singleton) 1-108 (lacking folios 81-89, i.e. a gathering of 8 and the first leaf of gathering 11) 118−1 128−1 (fol. 96 lacking) 13-148 158−1 (fol. 116 lacking) 168−2 (fol. 121 and 128, i.e. the outermost bifolium, lacking) 17-188 198−3 (fol. 148, 149 and 151 lacking) 208−4 (fol. 155-158 lacking) 21-268 276+1 (final leaf, [207], is a singleton...
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Layout: Single column, 15 lines. Bounding and ruling lines in blind or light plummet, square notation on a four-line staff.
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Script: Written in a gothic rotunda in black ink with red rubrics.
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Decoration (primary): Eight-line historiated initial "B" on fol. 1 in gold and colors showing King David in the upper compartment and St. Jerome in the lower compartment, with medallion borders in the outer and lower margins containing portraits of Saints Felix, Timothy, Simphorian, Marcellus, Apuleius, Sixtus, Benedict, and Fabian. Over 100 two- to four-line initials in gold and colors...
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Decoration (secondary): Single-line initials throughout for versals, blue with red filigree or red with purple.
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Binding: Later diced leather over original wooden boards, rebacked, with original brass bosses, cornerpieces, decorative hardware, and edge guards intact. Rebacking and clasp straps in later shagreen.
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Origin: Commissioned by the Benedictine monastery of San Sisto in Piacenza in the last quarter of the 15th century and written in Italy ca. 1495.
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Provenance: This psalter is described in the 16th-century San Sisto library inventory as "Psalterium magnum nocturnum signat. 12" (Bollati, pp. 41-43). In 1810, when the Napoleonic decree suppressing religious orders reached the monastery, the set of 14 choirbooks to which the present manuscript belongs were hidden in the attic of the family home of a monk named Benedetto Affaticati. They were...
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Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased in May, 1940, from Julius Hess (Bern), his Cat. 1 (1935), no. 5.
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Call number: MS pf Med.97.
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Former call number: MS 1524.
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Bibliography: "Library notes: exhibition of illuminated manuscripts." More Books/Boston Public Library Quarterly XV (1940): 385; Alexander, Jonathan James Graham. "Matteo da Milano, Illuminator." Pantheon 50 (1992): 41-42; Bollati, Milvia. I corali benedettini di San Sisto a Piacenza. Bologna, 2011; Filippone Overty, Joanne. "Reconstructing the Monastic Choir Books of San Sisto in Piacenza...
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4 December 2023
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