Bryn Mawr College, MS 50
Images provided by hosting institution via
Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS16550
- Shelfmark:
- MS 50
- Title:
- Liturgical Miscellany with Prayers, Office of St. Catherine, Mass of the Virgin, and Biblical Readings, etc.
- Place:
- Florence?, Italy
- Date:
- 1475-1500
- Language:
- Latin; Italian
- Material:
- Parchment
- Physical Description:
- Extent: i+78+i; 135 x 95 mm bound to 145 x 104 mm; parchment
- Former Owner(s):
- Corbinello, Nanna
Corbinello, Giovan Battista
- Note:
- Binding: Eighteenth-century(?) brown leather over pasteboard, with the original (Italian, fifteenth-century) front and back covers laid down; tooled in blind with a border of two sets of five fillets, a chain pattern between them, forming a rectangular center panel of three rope-interlace medallions; rounded spine with two raised bands
Layout: Single column, nineteen lines, ruled in brown ink with full-length single vertical bounding lines; written area: 101 x 65 mm
Script: Humanistic
Decoration: Five full illuminated borders (fols. 1, 12, 51, 70v, and 71) probably added in the eighteenth century, with various decorations including numerous floral and leaf designs, a peacock, a coat of arms, a grasshopper, and an angel playing an instrument; one- to two-line red initials beginning sections throughout, some with simple red pen decoration; majuscules within text slashed with...
Provenance: The contents provide the strongest evidence of the original owner of this manuscript, but the evidence is not without ambiguity, and further study is certainly called for. It may have been copied for a lay owner with strong ties to the Dominicans (possibly a member of the third order, or a lay confraternity), but it also seems possible that it was copied for a Dominican Friar or... - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0003/html/BMC_MS50.html
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/3/BMC_MS50/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
