Boston Public Library, MS f Med.12

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS3327

Shelfmark:

MS f Med.12

Title:

Historia scholastica].

Author:

Petrus, Comestor, active 12th century

Petrus Comestor WIKIDATA

Place:

France?]

France TGN

Date:

between 1175 and 1199

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 200 leaves : parchment ; 345 x 225 (255 x 167) mm

Former Owner(s):

Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of, 1797-1878

Bertram Ashburnham, 4th Earl of Ashburnham WIKIDATA

Barrois, Joseph, approximately 1785-1855

Joseph Barrois WIKIDATA

Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962

Sydney Cockerell WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
In Latin.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Secundo folio: unus deus est.
Collation: Parchment, fol. i (modern paper) + 200 + i (modern paper) ; 1-258 ; quires signed on the center margin of the last verso of each quire and occasionally on the lower center margin of the first recto, signatures a-p preserved. Modern arabic pencil foliation, upper right corner of each recto.
Layout: Two columns, 45 lines. Ruled in light plummet.
Script: Written in a late romanesque/early gothic script in black ink with red rubrics, some rubricator guides preserved vertically in outer margin (e.g. fol. 38 and 39).
Decoration: 2-line red epigraphic capitals throughout; books begin with 5-9 line red epigraphic capitals.
Binding: Contemporary vellum over boards, rebacked by BPL 7/9/30, early 20th-century endpapers and pastedowns, front hinge detached, clasps and bosses lacking.
Origin: Written in France in the late 12th century.
Provenance: 16th-century inscription on fol. 1 recto; chapter titles (possibly contemporary with the main text) written in the margins along outter edge of the page. Formerly ms. n. 26 in a French monastic library (?); owned by Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Barrois (1784-1855), his 1849 sale (n. 121) to Bertram, the Fourth Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878. BPL embossed stamp on first two leaves.
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased at the Ashburnham sale, Sotheby's London, 10 June 1901, lot 142 to Sydney Cockerell for the Boston Public Library (Cockerell's notes on front flyleaf).
Call number: MS f Med.12.
Former call number: MS G.31.86.
Bibliography: Zoltan Haraszti, "Medieval Manuscripts in the Library," More Books III (1928): 61.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Medieval

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Marginalia

Inscriptions

Embossed stamps

Wooden boards

Protogothic

Gothic scripts

Christian literature, Latin

Bible. Acts

Latin literature, Medieval and modern

Education, Medieval

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444660

IIIF Manifest:

https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/8g84qk40q/manifest

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library