(Q16841)
Statements
28 November 2023
0 references
Giovanni d'Andrea, approximately 1270-1348
0 references
De Visme, Gerard, 1725?-1797
0 references
Verdussen, Jean Baptiste, 1698-1773
0 references
Gasparoli, Jean Marie Michel
0 references
A. Rosenthal, Ltd
0 references
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Netherlands
0 references
Manuscripts, Medieval--Netherlands
0 references
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Massachusetts--Boston
0 references
Manuscripts, Medieval--Massachusetts--Boston
0 references
Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420--Early works to 1800
0 references
ca. 1470
15. century
1470Gregorian
1470Gregorian
0 references
Extent: viii, 135 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 315 x 222 (198 x 136) mm bound to 32 cm, in box 35 cm
0 references
Ms. codex.
0 references
In Latin.
0 references
Title from rubric on leaf viii verso: Incipit prologus in Iheronimianum compositum a pretellenti iurisdoctore Johanne Andree.
0 references
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
0 references
Collation: Parchment, fol. ii (modern paper) + 8 + 135 + ii (modern paper) ; 1-178 188−1 final (blank) leaf cancelled ; original roman foliation in red ink, upper center margin of each recto, begins with "i" on fol. 8 (the first text leaf), those numbers used here for reference; modern arabic pencil foliation, upper outer corner of each recto, begins with 1 on fol. 1, partially- to...
0 references
Layout: Two columns, 37 lines. Bounding and writing lines in light plummet, vertical full-length.
0 references
Script: Written in a gothic bookhand in black with red rubrics.
0 references
Decoration: Three-line capitals throughout alternating red and blue; four-line blue and white "puzzle" initials throughout with red and green filigree; four 9- to 12-line initials at major divisions, in similar style (fol. 1v, 13v, 35v, 41); 16-line initial [I] on fol. 1 in dark blue with light blue foliate highlights on gold leaf with tooled tracery, with a full foliate border of leaves...
0 references
Binding: As of 2010, resewn, rebacked, and bound in stiff vellum with two modern heavy paper endleaves at front and back. Folio i, the first blank leaf, is actually a fifteenth-century paper flyleaf adhered to the recto of the first leaf of the first quire. Previously bound in ca. 18th-century, Dutch brown calf over pasteboard, spine in compartments, title gilt-stamped on spine, "S. ANDREAS...
0 references
Provenance 1: Inscription of Jan-Baptiste Verdussen III (1698-1773), printer in Antwerp, on fol. viii verso, citing eighteenth-century bibliographical works mentioning (or neglecting to mention) Giovanni d'Andrea and the present text: "Opus hoc de laudibus Sti Jeronimi, Joanni Andreae attributum, numquam impressum fuit, Labbe de S[criptoribus ecclesiasticis] t. i. f. 512. vide fabricii...
0 references
Provenance 2: Gasparoli sale of 1823 by Vander Hey, Catalogue d'une belle collection de manuscrits, tant sur velin que d'autres, lot 65 (SDBM 76524). Sold by Bayne and Son in 1826, Bibliotheca selectissima: a catalogue of books printed in the fifteenth century, nr. 967 (SDBM 64688). Unidentified round armorial plate inside former front and back boards, with Jonkheer coronet and motto "Finis...
0 references
Immediate source of acquisition: Acquired by BPL in 1939 from A. Rosenthal, his bookplate inside former front cover.
0 references
Call number: MS f Med.73.
0 references
Former call number: MS 1471.
0 references
Bibliography: B. Lambert, Bibliotheca Hieronymiana Manuscripta IIIB (Steenbrugis, 1970): 668.
0 references
4 December 2023
0 references