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28 November 2023
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Alexandreis : with gloss : in Latin].
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Walter, of Châtillon, active 1170-1180
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Louis II, Count of Flanders, 1330-1384
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Barrois, Joseph, approximately 1785-1855
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Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of, 1797-1878
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Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--France
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Epic poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern)
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Massachusetts--Boston
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Manuscripts, Medieval--Massachusetts--Boston
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Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C--Romances
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ca. 1250
13. century
1250Gregorian
1250Gregorian
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Extent: 100 leaves : parchment ; 275 x 185 (190 x 55) mm bound to 289 x 193 mm
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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: Inspicit et patrias...
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Collation: Parchment, fol. i +100 + i ; 1-812 94 ; catchwords in lower margin, final verso of each quire. Foliated in pencil with modern arabic numerals on the upper outer corner of each page (e.g. 1r, 1v, etc.).
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Layout: One column, 32 lines. Bounding and writing lines in light plummet.
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Script: Written in a gothic bookhand (textualis libraria) in brown ink.
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Decoration: Red epigraphic capitals throughout, with 2- to 7-line initials beginning each book's capitula list and 2-line initials for each book incipit.
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Binding: 19th-century brown sprinkled paper over paste-board, calf corners and spine, green edges, black leather spine label, gilt "GUALTERIUS/ DE/ INSULIS/ ALEXANDREIS," paper endleaves and pastedowns. Boss burns on fol. 1 and 2 indicate that an older binding was clasped.
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Origin: Written in France in the middle of the 13th-century. Blank spaces left for glossing, especially in Book 4 (fol. 31-34, glossing IV:181-212); spaces left unfilled on fol. 34v-42; large section cut out of fol. 35, no text loss. Marginal and interlinear glossing throughout, in several hands dating from the thirteenth through the fifteenth centuries.
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Provenance: On fol. 1: "Anno 1558"; inscriptions by F. H. Eustace dated 1806, fol. 1 and 100v; fol. 100v: ex libris of Louis II de Male, Count of Flanders (1330-1384): "A Louis contes/ Omnibus omnia non mea sompnia dicere possum/ nous contes de flandres duc de brabant sire de malines sire de nevers et sire de rethers et sire de malines faisons savoir." Louis ascended to the seats of Flanders...
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Immediate source of acquisition: Ashburnham sale, Sotheby's London, 10 June 1901, lot 250 (lot number written inside front cover) to Sydney Cockerell for the Boston Public Library (BPL bookplate inside front cover, embossed on fol. 1, Cockerell's notes inside front cover).
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Call number: MS f Med.23.
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Former call number: MS G.31.68.
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Bibliography: Zoltan Haraszti, "Medieval Manuscripts in The Library," More Books III (1928): 67.
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4 December 2023
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