(Q17192)
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28 November 2023
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Dominical processional].
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Processional (Manuscript Boston Public Library. MS q Med.135)
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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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between 1350-1399
14. century
1350Gregorian
1399Gregorian
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Extent: 113 leaves, parchment, ill. ; 157 x 120 (110 x 80) mm
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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 and on entry 151 in the Beyond Words catalog (Patricia DeLeeuw).
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Secundo folio: ... reptium faciem domini ...
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Collation: Parchment, fol. i + 113 + i ; 12 (two tipped-in singletons), 2-612 712−2 (lacking outermost bifolium, i.e. the leaves before fol. 63 after fol. 72) 812−1 1 (lacking one leaf before fol. 84), 912 1010 118−1 (this quire a slightly later addition, final leaf cancelled) ; catchwords preserved in lower center margin of final versoes of some quires. Modern arabic pencil foliation, upper...
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Layout: Single column, 5 staves of music or 15 text lines. Bounding lines in light plummet. Square Gregorian notation on a four-line staff, c-clef indicated, staves in red, notes in black, some stems, red measure lines added later.
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Script: Written in a rounded Gothic bookhand in black ink with red rubrics.
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Decoration: Two- to three-line initials throughout in red with blue filigree or vice versa; one-staff high initial in colors in foloriate style on fol. 64v (first Responsory of the Office of the Dead). Nineteen two-staff or five- to six-line miniatures with small inset initials in gold and colors, and one half-page miniature (fol. 106v, spuriously attributed by Maggs and later by Faye and Bond...
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Binding: Ca. 17th-century Italian blind-stamped and tooled calf over bevelled boards, fillet turn-ins, round brass cornerpieces, spine in compartments, modern vellum pastedowns and conjugate flyleaves in front and back; stamps include YHS monogram and stylized cherub head.
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Origin: Written in Northern Italy (possibly Bologna) in the second half of the 14th century. 16th-century additions throughout, e.g. 52v.
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Provenance: Sold Sotheby's London 28 July 1902, lot 761 (collection of James Ward and Alexander Howell); Sotheby's London 15 December 1924, lot 519 to Stevens; Maggs cat. 542 (1930), no. 96; cat. 555 (1931), no. 8; cat. 14 (1939), no. 2; cat. 687 (1940), no. 232; and cat. 802 (1951), no. 4.
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Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased from Maggs in 1954.
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Call number: MS q Med.135.
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Former call number: BPL MS 1559.
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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. 151; More Books/BPL Quarterly VII (1955): 74.
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4 December 2023
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