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28 November 2023
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Profession ritual and Benedictine rule for nuns : in Latin and Flemish].
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Netherlands
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Manuscripts, Medieval--Netherlands
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Manuscripts, Medieval--Massachusetts--Boston
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Monastic and religious life of women--Manuscripts--Early works to 1800
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Benedictines--Liturgy--Manuscripts--Early works to 1800
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Monastic and religious life--Rules and practice--Early works to 1800
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Benedictines--Netherlands--Early works to 1800
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Massachusetts--Boston
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Benedictines--Liturgy--Early works to 1800
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between 1500 and 1599
16. century
1500Gregorian
1599
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Extent: 144 leaves : paper, ill. ; 139 x 95 (102 x 67) mm bound to 15 cm, in box 18 cm
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Ms. codex.
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In Latin and Flemish.
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Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based primarily on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
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Title devised by cataloger.
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Secundo folio: (fol. 3) ...sal beghinnen met gheboeck...
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Collation: Parchment, fol. i + 144 + ii ; 1-188 ; modern arabic pencil foliation, upper outer corner of each recto, numbers flyleaves as well so reaches 147 instead of 144.
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Layout: 1 column, 19 lines. Bounding and ruling lines in light plummet. Rhythmic mensural notation on a 4-line black staff.
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Script: Written in a Flemish humanistic bookhand in black ink with red rubrics.
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Decoration: 2-line red initials with white space throughout, some in red and black; later (17th-century) medallion engravings pasted to blanks on fol. 1, 24v, 25v, 146, 147.
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Binding: Original blind-stamped calf over wooden boards, IHS/ Crucifixion gilt-stamped medallion center front and back, bronze clasps and catches intact, paper pastedown with conjugate flyleaf at front and back, rebacked, spine liners from s. XIV/XV manuscript at front at back. Spine liners from 14th- and 15th-century manuscript at back.
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Origin: Written in Flanders in the sixteenth century.
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Provenance: Nineteenth-century shelfmark 4452 on paper label affixed to front cover. 19th- and 20th-century dealers' notes in pencil inside front cover.
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Immediate source of acquisition: Unknown.
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Call number: MS q Med.255.
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4 December 2023
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