(Q17411)
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Psalter : use of Sarum : in Latin].
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--England
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Massachusetts--Boston
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Manuscripts, Medieval--Massachusetts--Boston
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between 1425 and 1450
15. century
1425Gregorian
1450Gregorian
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Extent: 157 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 219 x 157 (160 x 100) mm bound to 23 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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Secundo folio: Marcius/ Primus mandantem...
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Collation: Parchment, fol. ii (19th-century paper) + 157 + ii (19th-century paper) ; 16 216 316+1 (fol. 37 tipped-in singleton) 4-58 66 7-812 912−2 1024 (two leaves cancelled between fol. 94 and 95) 11-128 1316 146 ; catchwords in lower outer corner, final verso of each quire. Modern pencil arabic foliation, upper outer corner of each page, skips second-to-last folio (blank) so reaches 156...
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Layout: Single column, 20 lines. Bounding and ruling lines in light brown (calendar in red).
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Script: Written in a gothic bookhand (calendar in a different hand) in black ink with red rubrics, fol. 36 only.
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Decoration: Versal initials 1-line alternating red and blue; Psalm initials 2-line blue with red filigree; major divisions begin with 5-line initial in typical English palette of pale blue, pink and green on gold with acanthus and infill in colors, 3/4 gold-bar border, acanthus at corners, with black tendril vines.
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Binding: English blind-rolled and -stamped brown morocco over pasteboard, ca. 1815, title gilt-stamped red leather spine label reads "ROMAN/ MISSAL", spine gilt in compartments, all edges gilt, paper pastedowns and endleaves, gilt fillet turn-ins and board edges.
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Origin: Written in England in the second quarter of the fifteenth century, Sarum use. The calendar includes St. Batildis (30 January), Richard Confessor (3 April), Swythunus (15 July), Edith (16 September), Edmund (16 November), and many other English saints, although it is not localizable beyond Sarum use. Easter is noted on March 27. The name of Thomas Becket has been expunged from the...
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Provenance: Owned in the 15th and 16th centuries by one Cook family, with several birth and death notices in Latin and English throughout the calendar. Signature of Thomas Dunn, front flyleaf.
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Immediate source of acquisition: Sold to BPL by Sydney Cockerell, 1901 (his annotation on front pastedown)
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Call number: MS q Med.7.
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Former call number: MS G.402.11.
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Bibliography: Zoltan Haraszti, "Medieval Manuscripts in The Library," More Books III (1928): 58 (this description pasted to front flyleaf)
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28 November 2023
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28 November 2023
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