Breviary : Carthusian use : in Latin]. (DS3819) (Q17480)

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Breviary : Carthusian use : in Latin]. (DS3819)
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Boston Public Library (8672433, MS q Med.296)

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    28 November 2023
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    Breviary : Carthusian use : in Latin].
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    Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Italy
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    Manuscripts, Medieval--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 1460 and 1470?
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    Extent: 318 leaves : parchment ; 90 x 65 (approximately 57 x 43) mm, bound to 10 cm
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    Ms. codex.
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    In Latin.
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    Title devised by cataloger; place and date conjectured from internal evidence (script, decoration, calendar)
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    This catalog record based in part on dealer's description.
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    Collation: Parchment, fol. ii (18th-century paper) + 318 + fol. ii (18th-century paper) ; I12 II10(+1, with fol. 13 an inserted singleton) III-VIII10 IX8 X-XIX10(-6, lacking one leaf after fol. 186, with loss of text) XX10 XXI8 XXII-XXXII10 ; horzontal catchwords on final versos of most quires, modern arabic foliation in pencil, without break for the missing leaf in quire XIX, thus reaching...
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    Layout: Single column, 24 lines. Ruled in brown ink.
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    Script: Written in brown ink in a southern gothic textualis libraria. Incipits, rubrics, etc., in red ink.
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    Decoration: Illuminated by a follower of Guglielmo Girardi, who is associated with manuscripts created for the Este family and for the Carthusian Charterhouse in Ferrara. Five illuminated floral borders. Two pairs of historiated medallions in lower margins, as follows: (fol. 14) Archangel Gabriel and the Virgin Mary, (fol. 120) Nativity with Joseph(?) and the Christ Child. Historiated initial...
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    Binding: Bound in ca. 18th-century red goatskin, gilt. Green gilt spine label.
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    Origin: Apparently copied in the 1460s for use of the Carthusian Charterhouse in Ferrara. Association with the Carthusians is demonstrated through inclusion in the calendar of the feasts of St. Hugh of Lincoln (17 November) and St. Hugh of Grenoble (1 April); the specification of "[cum] candelis" for important feast days, repeated throughout the calendar, is unique to Carthusian practice, and...
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    Provenance: Formerly in the collection of Lucien Magne (1849-1916), thereafter by descent. Offered at Tajan Auction House, Paris (16 March, 2021, lot 2)
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    Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased from Les Enluminures, Paris, in October 2023.
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    4 December 2023
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