(Q17426)
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28 November 2023
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Book of hours : use of Paris : in Latin].
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--France
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Massachusetts--Boston
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Manuscripts, Medieval--Massachusetts--Boston
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between 1475 and 1499
15. century
1475Gregorian
1499Gregorian
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Extent: 161 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 168 x 115 (95 x 64) mm bound to 18 cm in box 21 cm
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Ms. codex.
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In Latin, with French in calendar and rubrics.
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Title devised by cataloger.
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Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
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Secundo folio: xviii b kl s marcel.
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Collation: Parchment, fol. i + 161 + i ; bound too tightly to collate, although quires in the back appear to be gatherings of 8 leaves. Fol. 30 is not original to the manuscript. Fol. 16r, 17v, 19r, 24v, 155r, 156r, 156v, 157r, 158r, 158v, and 159v contain non-original, pasted-in inner borders, illustrated in a similar but not identical style ; modern pencil foliation in arabic numerals.
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Layout: One column, 17 lines. Fol. 30 has 16 lines + 2 written in at a later date. Ruled in red with bounding lines, full length top to bottom.
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Script: Written in a gothic hand in black ink with red rubrics. Fol. 30 in a bastarda hand in black ink with blue rubrics.
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Decoration (primary): Suffrages each include 9-line illuminated initial (except for the suffrage to Nicolas, which has a 10-line initial) in blue with white filigree, with borders with acanthus and gold paneling. Inner borders are pasted-in fragments, illustrated in a similar style. Initials historiated as follows: The Holy Trinity, Father and Son holding a book, dove in between (fol. 155...
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Decoration (secondary): Illustrations, initials, and borders are present on following leaves: St. John on Patmos (fol. 14) -- St. Luke writing (fol. 16) -- St. Matthew writing (fol. 17v) -- St. Mark reading (fol. 19) -- Virgin and child (fol. 20v) -- Virgin praying (fol. 24v) -- St. Gregory celebrating Mass (fol. 27v) -- Annunciation to the Virgin (fol. 30) -- Visitation (fol. 51) -- Nativity...
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Decoration (terciary): One-quarter borders throughout, with acanthus, traces of black vines, and gold paneling with floriation. Red, blue, and gold line fillers and one or two-line initials throughout, sometimes illuminated. Calendar: borders with acanthus, traces of black vines, and gold paneling with floriation. Text in red and black ink, alternating by line. Special days are written in blue...
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Binding: 18th-century red morocco, spine gilt-tooled in six compartments, all edges gilt. Green, yellow, and tan headbands. Marbled paste-down and free endpapers (spot pattern), laid paper fly-leaves.
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Origin: Produced in France in the late 15th century for a male. The gold panels in the border designs make it likely that the manuscript was illustrated in the Loire valley region. The calendar includes feasts for local Parisian saints such as Marcellus (3 November), Maturinus (9 November), and Opportuna (22 April), among several others. Many of the local names also appear in the litany...
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Provenance: Bookplate on front free endpaper: "Bibliothèque / de Suin, / à / Doudeville".
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Immediate source of acquisition: Bought from the sale of F.O. Stanley in Newton, MA, December 3-4, 1940.
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Call number: MS q Med.82.
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Former call number: MS 1508.
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Bibliography: Nancy Netzer, ed., Secular Sacred: 11th-16th-Century Works from the Boston Public Library and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Chicago: University Press, 2006), no. 9.
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4 December 2023
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