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28 November 2023
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La regla de las hermanas de la horden de Sancta Clara].
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Manuscripts, Spanish--Spain
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Manuscripts, Medieval--Spain
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Manuscripts, Spanish--Massachusetts--Boston
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Manuscripts, Medieval--Massachusetts--Boston
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Poor Clares--Early works to 1800
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Extent: 38 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 260 x 185 (187 x 130) mm bound to 27 cm, in box 30 cm
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Ms. codex.
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In Spanish.
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Title from opening rubric on fol. 4.
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Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based primarily on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
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Secundo folio: ...dicion. La bien...
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Collation: Parchment, fol. i (contemporary parchment free endpaper, conjugate to pastedown under paper) + 34 + i (contemporary parchment free endpaper, conjugate to pastedown under paper) ; 1-48 52 ; catchwords in lower center margin of final verso of each quire. Modern arabic pencil foliation, upper outer corner of each page.
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Layout: 1 column, 20 lines. Bounding and writing lines in brown plummet.
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Script: Written in a Spanish gothic rotunda in black ink with red rubrics.
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Decoration: 3-line initials throughout alternating blue filled with red on gold ink, or gold ink filled with red or blue on blue or red, twenty-eight in all. Opening three-quarter page miniature on fol. 1v of St. Clare standing in a walled courtyard holding a palm frond and displaying a host monstrance, with a deep landscape visible behind her, a city in the background at the right. Full...
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Binding: 16th-century black blind-tooled goatskin over boards, central panel gilt-stamped "YHS" with corner florets, front and back, hasps intact, lacking clasp bands, hinges worn, original blank parchment pastedowns (under contemporary paper pastedowns) with conjugate free endleaves.
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Origin: The Rule of the Order of St. Clare, written for the use of a community of Poor Clares in Spain.
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Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased in 1955 from Libreria Antiquaria Mediolanum, Milan (SDBM 57068).
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Call number: MS f Med.140.
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Former call number: MS 1565.
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Bibliography: BPL Quarterly IX (1957): 64.
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4 December 2023
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