Ms. codex. In Latin. Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis. Secundo folio: ... habemus abraham ... Collation: Parchment, fol. i (modern paper) + 151 + i (modern paper) ; 18 26 3-148 158+1 (fol. 119, the end of the Temporale, is a singleton) 16-198 ; catchwords in extreme lower right corner of every verso. 17th-/18th-century brown ink arabic foliation, each recto, numerous skips and mistakes, so reaches 136 at fol. 151. Foliation skips fol. 119-125 (the Mass) completely, possibly... Layout: 2 columns, 40 lines. Bounding and writing lines in blind or light plummet, upper and lower writing lines doubled. 4-line square musical notation on fol. 120, 124v and 125. Script: Written in a northern gothic textualis formata (textus quadratus) with Flemish features, in black ink with red rubrics, rubrication guides in outer margin partially trimmed. Decoration: 2-line epigraphic capitals throughout alternating red and blue; major feasts and liturgical divisions marked by 4- or 10-line blue and red puzzle initials with red and purple filigree. Full-page crucifixion miniature on fol. 122v, the Virgin Mary as the Mother of Sorrows, John the Evangelist at right, small sun and moon above, border of spindly vines and light red wash cinq-foil... Binding: Modern tan leather binding, smoke damage on covers, spine and block edges, heavy paper pastedowns and flyleaves; title "Missale Romanum" gilt-stamped on red leather spine label, original leather tabs on outer edge marking Quinquagesima, 4th Sunday of Quadragesima, Palm Sunday, Easter, Pentecost, John the Baptist, and fol. 137 (marking the feast day for one of the following: St... Origin: Written in Flanders in the late 14th century (a Flemish origin is indicated by the style of the script and by the orthography, which includes spellings such as the abbreviation "Ew." for "Evangelium" and "Aghatae" for "Agatha"). Provenance: Offered by L'Art Ancien, 1941 (catalog 26, number 26) Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased from L'Art Ancien in 1949 (catalog 37, number 13) Call number: MS f Med.109. Former call number: MS 1537. Bibliography: Ellen M. Oldham, "A Fourteenth-Century French Missal," BPLQ III (1951): 246-247. R. Randall, "Boston Public Library MS 1537" (Cambridge, 1952) (typescript on deposit at BPL, MS 3266).
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