(Q16778)
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28 November 2023
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Divinae institutiones].
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Lactantius, approximately 240-approximately 320
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Morris, William, 1834-1896
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Thompson, Henry Yates, 1838-1928
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Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962
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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 1425 and 1475
15. century
1425Gregorian
1475Gregorian
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Extent: 297 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 323 x 220 (192 x 120) mm bound to 33 cm
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Ms. codex.
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In Latin with some Greek.
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Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
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Secundo folio: professio multo melior...
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Collation: Parchment, fol. iii (later paper) + 297 + iii (later paper) ; 1-2910 3010−3 (three cancels after fol. 297) ; some signatures preserved in lower margin, formatted as a letter (indicating the quire) and number (indicated the leaf of the quire); e.g. fol. 53 signed E.3, fol. 104 signed L.4 ; most catchwords preserved in lower right corner of final verso of each quire. Modern pencil...
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Layout: One column, 27 lines. Ruled in blind.
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Script: Written in a humanistic bookhand in black ink with red or black rubrics in epigraphic capitals.
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Decoration: Two-line initial in gold in colors, fol. 10; 8-line white-vine initials in gold on colors at the opening of each book, at fol. 1, 45v, 84v, 130, 175v, 212v, and 257, with vines and gold balls extending into margin, that on fol. 1 somewhat more elaborate, surmounted by a peacock; in the lower margin of fol. 1r, arms (in a border argent and azure, argent three towers azure...
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Binding: 16th-17th century vellum over pasteboards, three paper flyleaves at front and back, no watermark, string loop closures, joints reparied, "Lactantius Firmanus" on spine.
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Origin: Written in Italy (possibly Venice) in the mid-fifteenth century.
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Provenance: On fol. 1, arms of first owner (a chief checky) covered by another early arms (in a border argent and azure, argent three towers azure; 16th-century note on f. 1 noting that Pope Gelasius declared Lactantius' work to be non-canonical. William Morris (Kelmscott House bookplate inside front cover), his sale Sotheby's London, 10 December 1898 (n. 745; SDBM 40015) to Henry Yates...
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Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased by Sydney Cockerell for the Boston Public Library on 30 January 1901 (his notes inside front cover; SDBM 197861); BPL bookplate inside front cover.
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Call number: MS f Med.14.
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Former call number: MS G.401.10.
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Bibliography: Zoltan Haraszti, "Medieval manuscripts in the Library," More Books III (1928): 62.
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4 December 2023
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