(Q16787)
Statements
28 November 2023
0 references
Aurora].
0 references
Aurora.
0 references
Peter Riga, approximately 1140-1209
0 references
Barrois, Joseph, approximately 1785-1855
0 references
Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of, 1797-1878
0 references
Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962
0 references
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--France
0 references
Bible--Versification--Early works to 1800
0 references
Christian literature, Latin--Early works to 1800
0 references
Manuscripts, Medieval--Massachusetts--Boston
0 references
Christian poetry, Latin--Early works to 1800
0 references
Bible as literature--Early works to 1800
0 references
Latin literature, Medieval and modern--Early works to 1800
0 references
Christian poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Early works to 1800
0 references
Latin poetry, Medieval and modern--Early works to 1800
0 references
Bible--Commentaries--Early works to 1800
0 references
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Massachusetts--Boston
0 references
between 1225 and 1275
13. century
1225Gregorian
1275Gregorian
0 references
Extent: 133 leaves : parchment ; 243 x 165 (175 x 65) mm bound to 26 x 17 cm
0 references
Ms. codex.
0 references
In Latin.
0 references
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
0 references
Secundo folio: Nomen designant flumina...
0 references
Collation: Parchment, fol. 133 ; 1-148 156 168 178−1 (final leaf cancelled). Folios 58/63, 66/71, 91/94, and 98/103 originally conjugate, now sewn- or tipped-in singletons. The bifolia of quire 12 (fol. 89-96) are bound out of order. The two leaves that had originally been been the outermost leaves (fol. 89/96 and fol. 90/95) have been rebound as the innermost leaves of this quire and the...
0 references
Layout: One column, 48-53 lines. Ruled in light plummet.
0 references
Script: Written in an early gothic bookhand in black ink with red rubrics.
0 references
Decoration: 2-line chapter initials throughout alternating red with blue filigree or vice versa; 11-line initial [F] on fol. 1r as a dragon in red and blue, tail extending down the outer margin; dragon in lower margin fol. 1r in blue and red with blue and red filigree "flames" extending the width of the lower margin. Biblical genealogical diagrams in outer margins of most fol. from 3-20, the...
0 references
Binding: 18th century brown calf over pasteboard, calf partially red-rotted, spine in compartments, title gilt "Petrus de Riga," green Barrois spine label "14[9]," edges spackled red.
0 references
Origin: Written in France in the mid-13th century.
0 references
Provenance: Marginal annotations throughout, contemporary and somewhat later. Ex libris from the fifteenth or sixteenth century on fol. 1r, read by de Ricci as "Desideratus Theres," but this seems an unlikely reading. The inscription is partially effaced, and appears to read "Ex libris d. di[ ]id. bati [ ]orast [ ]tigrosi." Owned by Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Barrois (1784-1855); his 1849 sale (n...
0 references
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased at the Ashburnham sale Sotheby's London, 10 June 1901, lot 469 to Sydney Cockerell for the Boston Public Library (Cockerell's notes on front flyleaf).
0 references
Call number: MS q Med.16.
0 references
Former call number: MS G.31.76.
0 references
Bibliography: P. Beichner, Aurora: Petri Rigae Biblia versificata (Notre Dame, 1965); G. Dinkova-Bruun, "Additions to Peter Riga's Aurora in paris, Bibliotheque Nationale de France Lat. 13050," Medieval studies 69 (2007): 1-58; Zoltan Haraszti, "Medieval manuscripts in the library," More Books III (1928): 63.
0 references
4 December 2023
0 references