Boston Public Library, MS f Med.122

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DS ID:

DS3325

Shelfmark:

MS f Med.122

Title:

Allen christen getrewen und recht gelobigen ...

Author:

Jacobus, de Theramo, 1350 or 1351-1417

Jacobus de Teramo WIKIDATA

Place:

Germany]

Germany TGN

Date:

ca. 1470

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ger

German WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 106 leaves : paper, ill. ; 297 x 205 (210 x 145) mm

Former Owner(s):

Schab, William H

William H. Schab WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
In German.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis and on Dr. Jeffrey Hamburger's entry in the 2016 Beyond Words exhibition catalog (number 67).
Secundo folio: geret emmbten ...
Collation: Paper, fol. i (modern paper) + 106 + i (modern paper) ; 110 212 312−1 (fol. 23 wanting) 412 512−1 (wanting 1 leaf before fol. 47) 6-812 912+1 (fol. 106 is tipped-in singleton) ; signed upper left corner of the first recto of each quire, with the signature of the folowing quire on the final verso (q. 1 unsigned, others signed a-h). Signatures on fol. 93/94 and 105/106 corrected...
Layout: Single column, approximately 25-28 lines; ruled in blind.
Script: Written in a German bâtarde in brown ink with red rubrics.
Decoration: Two-line red epigraphic capitals throughout fol. 1-18, guide-letters only fol. 18 and following. Opening initial on fol. 1 slightly larger. 61 half-page illustrations throughout in ink and wash, 3/4-page on fol. 84v and 85 representing the seven deadly sins.
Binding: Contemporary blind-tooled tawed skin over boards, dyed green, all bosses, corner-pieces and clasps intact, rebacked, modern fibrous paper pastedowns and flyleaves. Housed in a tan cloth box.
Origin: Written in Swabia ca. 1470.
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased by the BPL from W.H. Schab in 1952 (SDBM 57061).
Call number: MS f Med.122.
Former call number: MS 1544.
Bibliography: Jeffrey Hamburger, et al., eds. Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections. (Chestnut Hill: McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2016), no. 67; M. Munsterberg, "Satan's Lawsuit against Christ," BPLQ VI (1954): 150-159 (article tipped-in inside rear cover). N.H. Ott, Katalog der deutschsprachigen illustrierten Handschriften des Mittelalters II:1 (Munich, 1996...

Keyword:

Catches

Furniture

Manuscripts, Medieval

Metal clasps

Digital images

Gothic scripts

Manuscripts, German

Theology

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444658

IIIF Manifest:

https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/qb98qf62r/manifest

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library