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Metadata

DS ID:

DS3331

Shelfmark:

MS f Med.140

Title:

La regla de las hermanas de la horden de Sancta Clara

Rule of Saint Clare

Author:

Clare, of Assisi, Saint, 1194-1253

Clare of Assisi WIKIDATA

Place:

Spain

Spain TGN

Date:

ca.1500

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

spa

Spanish WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment, ill.

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 38 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 260 x 185 (187 x 130) mm bound to 27 cm, in box 30 cm

Former Owner(s):

Poor Clares

Poor Clares WIKIDATA

Libreria antiquaria Mediolanum

Libreria antiquaria Mediolanum WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
In Spanish.
Title from opening rubric on fol. 4.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based primarily on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Secundo folio: ...dicion. La bien...
Collation: Parchment, fol. i (contemporary parchment free endpaper, conjugate to pastedown under paper) + 34 + i (contemporary parchment free endpaper, conjugate to pastedown under paper) ; 1-48 52 ; catchwords in lower center margin of final verso of each quire. Modern arabic pencil foliation, upper outer corner of each page.
Layout: Single column, 20 lines. Bounding and writing lines in brown plummet.
Script: Written in a Spanish gothic rotunda in black ink with red rubrics.
Decoration: 3-line initials throughout alternating blue filled with red on gold ink, or gold ink filled with red or blue on blue or red, twenty-eight in all. Opening three-quarter page miniature on fol. 1v of St. Clare standing in a walled courtyard holding a palm frond and displaying a host monstrance, with a deep landscape visible behind her, a city in the background at the right. Full...
Binding: 16th-century black blind-tooled goatskin over boards, central panel gilt-stamped "YHS" with corner florets, front and back, hasps intact, lacking clasp bands, hinges worn, original blank parchment pastedowns (under contemporary paper pastedowns) with conjugate free endleaves.
Origin: The Rule of the Order of St. Clare, written for the use of a community of Poor Clares in Spain.
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased in 1955 from Libreria Antiquaria Mediolanum, Milan.
Call number: MS f Med.140.
Former call number: MS 1565.
Bibliography: BPL Quarterly IX (1957): 64.

Keyword:

Insertions (Production)

Goatskin bindings

Manuscripts, Spanish

Spain

Manuscripts, Medieval

Gothic scripts

Silver clasp plates

illuminations (paintings)

Inscriptions

Massachusetts--Boston

Poor Clares

Early works

Manuscripts

Institutional Record:

https://bpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C8444664

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Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library