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28 November 2023
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Excerpts from the Divine Office : for the use of the Poor Clares of Corpo de Christo : in Latin and Italian].
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Tommaso de Bianchis
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Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of, 1797-1878
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Barrois, Joseph, approximately 1785-1855
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Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Italy
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Massachusetts--Boston
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Manuscripts, Medieval--Massachusetts--Boston
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1485.
15. century
1485Gregorian
1485Gregorian
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Extent: 77 leaves : parchment ; 168 x 124 (110 x 87) mm bound to 18 cm
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Ms. codex.
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Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
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Secundo folio: Prosilivit m. p.
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Parchment, fol. iii (first two flyleaves are later parchment; third is medieval parchment) + 77 + ii (later parchment, marbled paper) ; 1-410 56 6-710 810+1 ; some signatures extant in far lower right corner, e.g. "a4" on fol. 4. Vertical catchwords, lower right corner, last verso of each quire. Two series of modern pencilled folio numbers, in arabic numerals: 1) upper outer corner each page...
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Layout: Two columns, 25 lines. Bounding and writing lines in brown ink or light plummet.
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Script: Written in a rounded gothic bookhand in brown ink with blue or red rubrics.
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Decoration: Texts begin with 3-line initial in blue with red filigree; 2-line initials throughout text 2 alternating red with purple filigree or blue with red. Golden number/dominical table in red and blue, fol. 61.
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Binding: 19th-century brown/purple morocco over pasteboard, blind-tooled, gilt-fillet border, gilt-filigree board edges and turn-ins, spine gilt in compartments, title "LO ACENTUAR/ LE DICTIONE/ RUBRICHE," brown marbled endpapers and conjugate flyleaves pasted to vellum bifolium whose conjugate is free flyleaf. Front hinge detached from bookblock. In front, free flyleaf followed by fragment of...
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Origin: Written in Bologna in 1485 by Tommaso de Bianchis for the use of the Poor Clares of Corpus Christi (see colophons on fol. 43 and 76).
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The litany includes such Franciscan saints as Anthony, Francis, Clare, Bishop Louis, and the Feast of the Stigmata.
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Provenance: A 16th-century Italian inscription on fol. iii verso begs the reader "for the love of God" to not remove the book from the church. Owned by Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Barrois (1784-1855), his 1849 sale (n. 220) to Bertram, the Fourth Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878) (green Barrois label on spine).
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Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased at the Ashburnham sale, Sotheby's London, 10 June 1901, lot 431 to Sydney Cockerell for the Boston Public Library (Cockerell's notes and Sotheby's lot number on fol. i verso).
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Call number: MS q Med.28.
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Former call number: MS G.38.34.
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Bibliography: Zoltan Haraszti, "Medieval Manuscripts in The Library," More Books III (1928): 68 (this description pasted inside rear cover).
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4 December 2023
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