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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Boston Public Library (8444919, MS q Med.88)
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| English | Book of hours : use of Rome : in Latin]. (DS3552) |
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Boston Public Library (8444919, MS q Med.88) |
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28 November 2023
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Book of hours : use of Rome : in Latin].
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Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
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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 1475 and 1499
15. century
1475Gregorian
1499Gregorian
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Extent: 205 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 193 x 145 (105 x 70) mm bound to 20 cm, in box 22 cm
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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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Collation: Parchment, fol. i (current pastedown) + 205 ; 16 (first leaf is pastedown) 26+1 (fol. 6 is singleton) 3-258 ; some signatures preserved in brown cursive in the lower right corner, e.g. fol. 73. Catchwords in brown cursive, lower right last verso of most quires. Modern pencil foliation in arabic numerals.
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Layout: Single column, 19 lines. Bounding lines in red plummet, full-length top to bottom.
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Script: Written in a gothic textualis formata in black ink with red rubrics.
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Decoration: Each suffrage begins with a seven-line initial in gold and colors with 3/4 border of scrolling acanthus with flowers on gold or colors. Initials historiated as follows: fol. 154, 154v, 155, 155v, 156, 157, 157v, 158, 158v, 162, 174, 184, 194. One- to two-line initials throughout in lavender with white filigree on red with gold background, or vice versa. Calendar: borders, zodiac...
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Binding: Late 19th-century red velvet over pasteboards, heavily rubbed and worn. Parchment pastedowns front and back, all edges gilt. Housed in a gilt-fillet red morocco case, spine gilt-stamped in compartments, lined with red watered silk.
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Origin: Illuminated in Flanders (possibly Bruges) in the last quarter of the 15th century for the use of a patron in the Champagne region in Northeast France.
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Provenance: Pencil notes in Flemish, front pastedown and flyleaf.
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Immediate source of acquisition: Bought from Quaritch, December 1939 (see tipped-in description on front flyleaf, from Catalogue of Illuminated and Other Mss, 1931, no. 49).
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Call number: MS q Med.88.
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Former call number: MS 1515.
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Bibliography: Nancy Netzer, ed., Secular/Sacred 11th-16th Century Works from the Boston Public Library and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston College, 2006), no. 11; W.J. Coe, "A Flemish Book of Hours," BPL Quarterly III (Jan. 1951): 35-43.
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4 December 2023
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