(Q16832)
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28 November 2023
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Postilla super totam bibliam : Parabolas, Ecclesiastes, Cantica canticorum. Prophetae minores].
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Nicholas, of Lyra, approximately 1270-1349
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Guerrini, Joachim, -1918
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Germany
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Bible--Commentaries--Early works to 1800
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Manuscripts, Medieval--Massachusetts--Boston
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Massachusetts--Boston
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1471.
15. century
1471Gregorian
1471Gregorian
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Extent: 2 v. : paper and parchment ; 298-302 x 215-212 (230-234 x 145-142) mm
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Ms. codex.
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In Latin.
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Title devised by cataloger.
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Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
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(MS f Med.3) 56 leaves, paper and parchment ; 298 x 215 (230 x 145) mm.
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(MS f Med.4) 88 leaves, paper and parchment ; 302 x 212 (234 x 142) mm, in box to 34 cm.
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Secundo folio: [MS f Med. 3]: ...a maiori denominatur; [MS f Med. 4]: ...planus in principius.
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Collation: Paper, with watermark: bull's head with five-petal flower above, cross below (similar to Briquet 14777). Parchment innermost bifolia of each quire and the outermost of the first quire of MS f Med.3 (eleven leaves of MS f Med.3 and fourteen leaves of MS f Med.4). Two volumes of an originally larger volume or multi-volume set. MS f Med.3: fol. ii + 56 + ii ; MS f Med. 4: fol. i + 88...
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Layout: Two columns, 47 lines. Ruled by creasing or in blind.
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Script: Written in a gothic cursive in black ink with red underlining of biblical citations, red rubrics.
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Decoration: 1-to-2 line enlarged red or blue initials throughout.
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Binding: 19th-century green marbled paper over pasteboard, black morocco spine, gilt-stamped, marbled endpapers, lower edge of MS f Med.4 striped, leather thumb tabs on outer edges of text block.
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Origin: Written in "Paradisus" Abbey, Germany (possibly Düren), by "John, Abbot at Paradiso," in 1471.
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Provenance: From abbey identified by de Ricci as Paradies, near Posen, or Paradies, near Soest. As the former is in modern-day Poland and the latter was a nunnery, neither of these is a likely place of origin for this manuscript, written in a German region in a community of men. Of the abbeys bearing some version of the name "Paradisus" listed in Cottineau's Répertoire topo-bibliographique des...
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Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased from the sale of Joachim Guerrini's library on Oct. 8 1878 (Leonard & Co., Boston, lot no. 1154) with the Pierce Fund (Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts 42794 and 197847).
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Call number: MS f Med.3-4.
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Former call number: Q.450.1 and Q.450.2.
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4 December 2023
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