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Metadata

DS ID:

DS25477

Shelfmark:

MS pb Med.301

Title:

Fragments from a Beneventan homiliary; in Latin

Homiliary

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

1000-1125?

eleventh century (dates CE) AAT

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

In Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 2 leaves : parchment ; 210-390 x 270 (285 x 205) mm

Former Owner(s):

Boehlen, Ernst

Ernst Boehlen WIKIDATA

Stephen Butler Rare Books & Manuscripts

Note:

Ms. leaves.
Title devised by cataloger.
Layout: Two columns, 31 lines; bounding and writing lines ruled in drypoint.
Script: Written in brown ink a Beneventan minuscule of the Bari type. Shows most of the characteristic letterforms, ligatures, and markings described by E.A. Lowe in "The Beneventan script," including the so-called line and dot abbreviation sign.
Decoration: Two zoomorphic initials in red, blue, gray, and yellow: a five-line "D" in "[D]ebitum de quo supra ..." and an eleven-line "F" in "[F]actum est autem ..." Capitals rubricated and heightened in blue and yellow.
Origin: Copied in southern Italy or Dalmatia in the 11th or early 12th century (see Lowe).
Provenance: Removed from an original codex as early as the Middle Ages, when an inscription, in Italian, was added to one of the leaves. Both fragments show tack holes with signs of corrosion. On the verso of the smaller fragment, a (19th-century?) paper tag with the letter "B" is affixed. According to Sotheby's, these fragments were once part of a collection in Ireland, possibly from the 19th...
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased from Stephen Butler Rare Books & Manuscripts in August, 2024.
Call number: MS pb Med.301.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Italian

Italy

Manuscripts, Medieval

Manuscript waste

Inscriptions

Homiliaries

Massachusetts--Boston

Institutional Record:

https://bpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C8894456

IIIF Manifest:

https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/rv048r64h/manifest

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library