Franciscan miscellany : in Latin with some Italian]. (DS3793) (Q17402)
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| English | Franciscan miscellany : in Latin with some Italian]. (DS3793) |
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Boston Public Library (8444907, MS q Med.40) |
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28 November 2023
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Franciscan miscellany : in Latin with some Italian].
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Jacopone, da Todi, 1230-1306
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Sabatier, Paul, 1858-1928
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Ludwig Rosenthal's Antiquariat
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Italy
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Manuscripts, Italian--Massachusetts--Boston
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Italian poetry--Texts--Early works to 1800
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Franciscans--History--Early works to 1800
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Massachusetts--Boston
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Francis, of Assisi, Saint, 1182-1226
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ca. 1490
15. century
1490Gregorian
1490Gregorian
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Extent: 156 leaves : parchment and paper, ill. ; 153 x 110 (writing space varies, approx. 120 x 80) mm bound to 17 cm
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parchment and paper, ill.
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Ms. codex.
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Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
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Secundo folio: ... debus ecce omnis...
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Collation: A mix of paper and parchment (fol. 46, 66, and quires 13-17 on paper, with watermarks (fol. 66, a rooster; quires 13-17, fowl similar to Briquet 12225 (Italy, late 15th century)); quires 11-12 on paper with parchment outer bifolium; all other leaves parchment) ; fol. i (modern paper?) + 56 + i (modern paper?) ; 18 26 34+2 4-58 68+1 71+1 88+1 98 104 11-158 1610 1712 186 196+1 2010+2...
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Layout: 1 or 2 columns, 40-43 lines. Bounding and writing lines in blind or light red plummet. Two lines of music on fol. 77, heightened square notation, staff lines not visible.
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Script: Written in several humanistic bookhands and cursives in brown ink with red rubrics.
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Decoration: 10-line initial in colors on gold with green and blue acanthus into margins and gold balls with brown filigree, historiated with portrait of St. Francis (fol. 21); 10-line initials in similar scheme without historiation, fol. 22; 3- to 6-line spaces unfilled throughout. Arbor amoris in red on fol. 121v.
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Binding: Limp vellum over pasteboard, later paper endleaves and pastedowns, 19th-century label remnants on spine.
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Origin: Written in Northern Italy in the late fifteenth century; some orthographic features, in particular the use of [-xia] for [-sia] at the end of a word, suggest a possible origin in Venice.
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Provenance: Early modern pencil notations inside front cover and on first flyleaf, #1014 on front cover and inner front pastedown. Sold by Ludwig Rosenthal to Franciscan scholar and biographer Paul Sabatier (1858-1928).
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Immediate source of acquisition: Acquired by the BPL from Sabatier's estate in 1930 along with several other manuscripts and his library of Francisciana, collectively known as the "Paul Sabatier Franciscan Collection" (Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts 42807 and 198008). BPL plate inside front cover.
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Call number: MS q Med.40.
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Former call number: MS Fr.96.F84.
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Bibliography: Zoltan Haraszti, "An Early Franciscan Breviary," More Books VII (1931): 327-340; Zoltan Haraszti, "A Library about St. Francis," More Books VII (1931): 275; L. Leonardo and G. Marrani, LIO - ITS/ Repertorio della Lirica Italiana delle Origini (Florence, 2005).
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4 December 2023
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