Boston Public Library, MS f Med.1
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS3324
- Shelfmark:
- MS f Med.1
- Title:
- Bible : Old and New Testament : in Latin].
- Place:
- France]
- Date:
- between 1250 and 1299
- Language:
- lat
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 451 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 318 x 230 (215 x 155) mm bound to 33 cm in box 35 cm
- Former Owner(s):
- Chevalier, Nicholas
Morris, William, 1834-1896
Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
In Latin.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Secundo folio: intelligunt. Taceo ...
Collation: Parchment, fol. iii (modern paper) + 451 ; 1-158 166 17-348 35-366 37-438 448+1 (fol. "346" tipped in singleton, currently loose and laid in, final canon table leaf), 45-548 556 56-588 ; catchwords preserved, lower center margin of the final verso of each quire ; original foliation of roman numerals in lower margin of each recto, skips 330-339 and thus reaches 426 instead of 416 at...
Layout: Two columns, 56 lines, bounding and writing lines in light plummet.
Script: Written in a gothic bookhand, with some cursive features in brown ink with red rubrics. Chapter numbers alternate red and blue epigraphic capitals.
Decoration (primary): Fol. 1r: 25-line historiated initial (the [F] of "Frater"), Jerome (nimbed) seated at a writing desk, in gold and colors with diapered blue background and a dragon in the stem of the letter; fol. 4v: 22-line historiated [I] of "In principio," with the days of creation in round medallions arranged in two parallel registers (days 1-4 at left, 5-6 at right), with three...
Decoration (secondary): Two-line historiated initials throughout alternating red with blue or blue with red filigree; psalm verse initials mid-line alternate red and blue; 10- to 20-line initials throughout in red and blue with elaborate red and blue filigree infill also extending into margins.
Binding: Ca. 19th-century brown morocco, with "Biblia Sacra/Latine/Manuscriptum/Saeculi XIII" stamped on the spine. Conservation rebinding performed in 2015.
Origin: Written in France in the second half of the 13th century.
Provenance: Unidentified arms of early owner on fol. 4v (or three roses argent); used from the 16th century on for birthnotes by one Durant family, living near Montargis (see inscriptions, partially effaced, final folio recto and verso); Nicolas Chevalier (1562-63), his arms were on the former old calf binding (see William Morris sales catalogue); William Morris, his sale (London 1898, n. 169...
Immediate source of acquisition: Acquired by Sydney Cockerell for BPL in December 1900, accessioned 29 April 1901.
Call number: MS f Med.1.
Former call number: MS G.401.11.
Bibliography: Zoltan Haraszti, "Medieval Manuscripts in The Library," More Books III (1928): 57. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444657
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/gq67mm95w/manifest
- Holding Institution:
