(Q17279)
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Book of hours : undetermined use : in German].
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Manuscripts, Medieval--Massachusetts--Boston
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Manuscripts, German--Massachusetts--Boston
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between 1450 and 1475.
15. century
1450Gregorian
1475Gregorian
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Extent: 87 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 113 x 87 (77 x 52) mm bound to 12 cm, in slipcase 13 cm
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Ms. codex.
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In German.
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Title devised by cataloger.
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Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based primarily on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
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Secundo folio: [fol. 3] ...mich in deiner...
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Collation: Parchment, fol. ii (paper) + ii + 87 + ii +i (paper) ; 112 28 312 48 512+3 68 712−1 818−4 (fol. 53-55 singletons; one cancel after fol. 73; final four leaves cancelled) ; modern arabic pencil foliation, upper outer corner each recto, skips the folio after 63 and so reaches 87 instead of 88.
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Layout: 1 column, 15 lines. Bounding lines in red ink, doubled and full-length.
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Script: Written in a gothic cursive in black ink with red rubrics.
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Decoration: 2-line initials throughout in colors and gold with half- or three-quarter-foliate border, throughout (35 in all); six 7-line initials in similar style with half-border; full-page miniatures on fol. 1v (St. Margaret) and 87 (St. Peter).
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Binding: Modern period style blind-stamped brown goatskin over boards, bevelled at center edges, gilt-fillet turn-ins, marbled paper pastedowns and conjugate flyleaves front and back, all edges gilt, board edges blind-tooled, spine blind-stamped in compartments; stored in cardboard slipcase covered with pastel marbled paper.
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Origin: Written in E. Germany/Austria in the third quarter of the fifteenth century.
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Provenance: Early twentieth-century bookplate of Ad[olphe] Lefrancq, curator of the Musée de Valenciennes, inside front cover. Sold by Zisska & Kistner, Catalogue 22: Handschriften, Autographen, seltene Bucher, part I (25 October, 1993), nr. 3 (Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts 513).
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Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased by BPL from Bruce Ferrini, 1993.
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Call number: MS q Med.242.
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Former call number: MS q 2833.
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28 November 2023
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28 November 2023
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