(Q17141)
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28 November 2023
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Life of St. Francis : with office : in Latin].
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Legenda Maior
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Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, approximately 1217-1274
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Franciscan Convent (Montepulciano, Italy)
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Italy
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Francis, of Assisi, Saint, 1182-1226--Early works to 1800
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Massachusetts--Boston
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Manuscripts, Medieval--Massachusetts--Boston
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between 1235 and 1260
13. century
1235Gregorian
1260Gregorian
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Extent: 168 leaves : parchment ; 161 x 110 (106 x 75) mm bound to 17 cm, in box 20 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: Ideoque alterius amici...
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Collation: Parchment, fol. 168 ; 1-1610 1710−2 (last two leaves cancelled) ; catchwords partially trimmed, lower center margin of final verso each quire. 15th-century (?) roman numerals in black ink, upper center margin of each recto, fol. 1-160 only (as i-c and i-lx).
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Layout: 1 column, 18 lines. Bounding and writing lines in blind.
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Script: Written in a southern gothic textualis libraria in brown ink with red rubrics (chapter numbers in upper outer corner rectos in original brown arabic numerals, partially trimmed).
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Decoration: Two- to three-line initials in colors on fol. 1, 4v and 117; two-line red with blue filigree into margin or vice versa throughout, at chapter incipits, smaller initials in same scheme on fol. 3v-4; three-line historiated initial in same color scheme of a Franciscan holding a book, fol. 112.
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Binding: 14th- or 15th-century half calf over bevelled boards, blind-tooled covers, spine heavily rubbed, clasps lacking, 17th-century writing on front edge of book block reads "13/ Legenda S. Francisci/ Frantella Monte Pulciano" (near Siena). Housed in cloth clamshell case,
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Origin: Written in northern Italy, between 1235-1260. Possibly produced for the Franciscan abbey of Montepulciano (their 17th-century ex libris on front edge). The Office of St. Francis is that composed by Julian of Speyer around the year 1235, and, as recorded in this manuscript, originally gave the following text of the first responsory of Matins (fol. 162): "Hic vir in vanitatibus nutritus...
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Provenance: 15th-century annotations on fol. 168v. Ca. 17th-century collation note on fol. 168: "Carte--168/ quinterni--16".
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Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased by BPL in 1948.
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Call number: MS q Med.102.
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Former call number: MS 1529.
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Bibliography: Boston Public Library Quarterly III (1951): 79-82.
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4 December 2023
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