(Q17324)
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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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1380.
14. century
1380Gregorian
1380Gregorian
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Extent: 144 leaves : parchment ; 193 x 132 (137 x 88) mm
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Author's name from Steiner, A. Guillaume Perrault and Vincent of Beauvais. Speculum, vol. 8, no. 1 (Jan., 1933) pp. 51-58. Sometimes attributed Humbert of Romans, Vincent of Beauvais, or Thomas Aquinas.
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Title from incipit (2₁ recto).
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Date from colophon (18₆ verso); place based on analysis of script.
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Ms. codex.
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In Latin.
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Secundo folio: Ista su[n]t capitula huius operis infra scripti diuisi i[n] sex partes qua[rum] viz ...
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Collation: parchment, fol. i (modern paper) + 144 (foliated [5], i-Cxxxvii, [2]) + iii (modern paper) ; 14 2-148 1510 168 1710 188 ; horizontal catchwords in brown or red ink frames in lower margin of final versos of each gathering. Contemporary roman foliation in red ink, upper outer corner of each leaf, from 22-186.
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Layout: Two columns, 31 lines below the top line. Bounding and ruling lines in blind and light brown ink. Pricking in outer margins.
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Script: Written in a southern textualis libraria with red rubrics.
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Decoration: Nine-line initial on 21 in interlocking blue and red. Two- and three-line initials rubricated throughout in alternating blue and red. Capital strokes in yellow. Capitula in blue, red, and black.
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Binding: 19th-century brown goatskin with the author (listed as Humbert) and title stamped in gilt on the upper cover ("Humbertus de Institutione Religionis.") and the date stamped in gilt on the lower cover ("Liber. M.S. MCCCLXXX.").
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Origin: Written in Italy or Southern France in 1380.
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Provenance: Early/contemporary marginalia throughout. Ca. 19th-century inscription on 11 recto attributing the work to Humbert of Romans. BPL embossed stamp on 11 recto. Purchased by Theodore Parker in Rome, 1844, according to an inscription on the front flyleaf verso.
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Immediate source of acquisition: Acquired by the BPL in Oct., 1861 via the Theodore Parker bequest.
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Call number: MS q Med.260.
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Former call number: MS B.144.6.
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28 November 2023
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28 November 2023
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