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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Boston Public Library (8444800, MS q Med.127)
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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| English | De contemplatione Christi]. (DS3464) |
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Boston Public Library (8444800, MS q Med.127) |
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28 November 2023
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De contemplatione Christi].
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Budé, Jean, 1430-1502
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Le Gualès de Mézaubran, Gilberte, 1892-1970
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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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Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions--Early works to 1800
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between 1450 and 1475
15. century
1450Gregorian
1475Gregorian
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Extent: 32 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 144 x 105 (84 x 53) mm bound to 16 cm
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Ms. codex.
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In Latin.
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Title from incipit.
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Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
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Secundo folio: ...leo virtute laudo...
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Collation: Parchment, xii (18th-century paper flyleaves) + 32 ; 1-38 46 52 ; some signatures barely visible, mostly trimmed, lower right recto of the first half of several quires. Catchwords in brown ink in scribal hand, some repeated by a different hand in blue ink, lower center margin of the final verso of each quire. Modern arabic pencil foliation, partial.
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Layout: 1 column, 17 lines. Bounding and writing lines in red plummet, top and bottom writing lines extend across the width of the page.
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Script: Written in a bâtarde script in brown ink with blue rubrics.
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Decoration: 2-line initials throughout in gold leaf on blue and salmon with white filigree highlighting; 3/4-page miniature on fol. 1: Augustine kneels on a hillside, his mitre and crozier at his side, with the vision of Christ in majesty in a heavenly aperture at the upper right, a fortified city in the background; full border of spindly vines and small leaves in gold and colors, arms of Jean...
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Binding: Modern vellum binding with paper pastedowns and endleaves.
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Origin: Spuriously attributed to Augustine, De contemplatione Christi is in fact a compilation drawn from John of Fécamp, St. Bernard, Hugh of Saint-Victor, and St. Anselm (see PL XL:951-968). The present manuscript was written in France in the third quarter of the fifteenth century.
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Provenance: First owned by Jean Budé (1430-1502), courtier to King Louis XI and Charles VIII, noted book collector, and father of French humanist Guillaume Budé: his arms in the lower margin of fol. 1. According to Omont (p. 101), most of Budé's manuscripts bore his arms and were acquired between 1481 and 1488, as indicated by acquisition notes in his hand on many manuscripts (although no such...
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Immediate source of acquisition: Sold to BPL by Maggs, cat. 816 (1953), no. 141 (SDBM 52536).
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Call number: MS q Med.127.
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Former call number: MS 1549.
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Bibliography: BPL quarterly VII (1955), p. 78; E. Droz, "Livres imprimés de la Bibliothèque de Jean Budé," in Humanisme et Renaissance, vol. VI (1939), pp. 288-293; C. Garand, "Les copistes de Jean Budé (1430-1502)," in Bulletin d'information de l'Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes 15 (1967), pp. 294-328; J. Martin-Demézil, "Un manuscrit de la bibliothèque de Jean Budé," in...
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4 December 2023
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