(Q17177)
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28 November 2023
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Passionale : in Latin].
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Felice, Matteo, active 1467-1493
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De Fouar, Beatrice
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Leo S. Olschki (Firm)
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Italy
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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: 79 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 137 x 97 (82 x 57) mm bound to 14 cm
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Ms. codex.
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In Latin.
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Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
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Secundo folio: ... per caput ipsius recumbentis ...
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Collation: Parchment, fol. i (19th-century parchment) + 79 + i (19th-century parchment) ; 1-98 108−11, final leaf cancelled ; vertical catchwords, lower right corner of the last verso of each quire. Modern arabic pencil foliation, upper outer corner of each recto.
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Layout: 1 column, 13 lines. Bounding and writing lines in blind or light plummet.
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Script: Written in a humanistic bookhand in brown ink with red or blue rubrics.
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Decoration: 2- to 3-line gold capitals on red and blue with white filigree highlighting throughout, followed by incipits in gold-leaf epigraphic capitals; four 4-line historiated initials in gold and colors with full white vine borders on gold and colors with marginal putti, animals and hunting scenes, attributed to Matteo Felice (fl. 1467-93; see Lattanzi): fol. 1: St. Matthew writing at a...
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Binding: 19th-century green morocco, gilt double-fillet borders, spine with gilt-stamped florets in compartments, parchment pastedowns and conjugate flyleaves, edges speckled; housed in custom green woodblock printed paper slipcase, contemporary with binding, shelf number on paper label on front.
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Origin: Written in Italy in the last quarter of the 15th century.
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Provenance: Owned in the eighteenth century by one Beatrice de Fouar (her signature on 77v).
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Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased by BPL in 1954 from Olschki (SDBM 57063). Formerly BPL MS 1550.
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Call number: MS q Med.128.
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Former call number: MS 1550.
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Bibliography: Boston Public Library Quarterly VII (1955): 76; A. D. Lattanzi, "Di alcuni codici miniati attribuibili a Matteo Felice e bottega" in La Bibliofilia LXXV (1973): 1-43, see p. 39 and fig. 20.
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4 December 2023
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