(Q16904)
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28 November 2023
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Single leaf from a 15th-century missal : in Latin].
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Nicolas Rauch S.A
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--France
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Manuscripts, Medieval--Massachusetts--Boston
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ca. 1450
15. century
1450Gregorian
1450Gregorian
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Extent: 1 leaf : parchment, ill. ; 413 x 284 (295 x 195) mm
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Ms. leaf.
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Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
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Layout: Two columns (each 90 mm wide), 27 lines. Bounding and writing lines in light plummet, bounding lines full-length.
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Script: Written in a gothic bookhand in black ink with red rubrics.
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Decoration: Two- or three-line initials throughout in red with blue penwork or vice versa; on the verso, six-line [S] in blue with white filigree highlights in a gold frame, historiated with St. Nicholas, in Bishop's robes with mitre and crozier, resuscitating the three youths who stand in a barrel; half border (full height of the outer margin and width of the outer column) of black tendrils...
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Binding: Housed in an oversize folder.
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Origin: Written in France in the mid-fifteenth century. St. Evasius rarely venerated outside of Lombardy.
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Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased from Nicholas Rauch in 1955.
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Call number: MS pb Med.152.
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Former call number: MS 1577.
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Bibliography: Netzer, N. ed., Secular/Sacred 11th -- 16th Century Works from the Boston Public Library and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston College, 2006), nr. 56.
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4 December 2023
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