(Q17429)
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Devotional picture book].
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Italy
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Manuscripts, Medieval--Massachusetts--Boston
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between 1390-1410?
14. century
15. century
1390Gregorian
1410Gregorian
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Extent: 26 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 140 x 102 (101 x 70) mm
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Ms. codex.
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In Latin, with 17th-century captions in Italian.
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Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
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Secundo folio: La Purificazione.
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Collation: Parchment, fol. i (parchment) + 26 + i (parchment) ; I4 II8 III6 IV2, i, i, i, V2, i, i (fols. 21, 22, 23, 26, and the final blank are singletons, with fol. 26 tipped onto the final blank).
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Layout: Latin captions accompany each full-page miniature.
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Script: Written in a rounded gothic bookhand in red ink, with 17th-century captions in a humanistic bookhand in black ink.
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Decoration: 49 full-page miniatures in gold and colors by several hands, with added woodcut borders of scrolling vines.
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Binding: 16th-century leather (goat or sheep) paneled and tooled in blind over bevelled wooden boards with early modern repair and rebacking. Clasps missing, brass catches present. Conserved in 2018: rebacked and resewn, with consolidation of pigments and illumination. Housed in a tan cloth box.
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Origin: Written and decorated in Bologna, between the last decade of the 14th century and the beginning of the 15th century. Fols. 2r-4r assigned to same artist as Vatican City, BAV, ms. Ross 242. Most other illuminations attributed to the Master of 1411, who takes his name from the Matricola dei Drappieri of 1411 (see Beyond Words catalog no. 136). Italian captions added in the 17th century...
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Provenance: Franz Trau (sale, Vienna, 1905 -- see Gilhofer & Ranschburg, cat. 7, 1905) to Prof. Victor Goldschmidt of Heidelberg (1853-1933), with his black ink signature, fol. 26v, dated 1915. Offered by L'Art Ancien, cat. 26 (1941), no. 20 (SDBM 10364).
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Immediate source of acquisition: H.P. Kraus, March 1941 (SDBM 56864). BPL bookplate inside front cover, with pencil note "Josiah H. Benton, May 23, 1941."
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Call number: MS q Med.85.
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Former call number: MS 1512.
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Bibliography: Jeffrey Hamburger, et al., eds. Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections. (Chestnut Hill: McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2016), no. 136; Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages and Renaissance; an Exhibition held at the Baltimore Museum of Art (Baltimore, 1949), no. 167.
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28 November 2023
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28 November 2023
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