Boston Public Library, MS f Med.151

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DS ID:

DS3333

Shelfmark:

MS f Med.151

Title:

Missal : use of York : in Latin].

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

England]

England TGN

Date:

between 1325 and 1375].

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 226 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 347 x 232 (270 x 175) mm

Former Owner(s):

Fitzwilliam, William Charles de Meuron, Earl, 1872-1943

William Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 7th Earl Fitzwilliam WIKIDATA

Gascoigne family

Gascoigne baronets WIKIDATA

Neville family

House of Neville WIKIDATA

Fitzwilliam (Wentworth) Estates

Wentworth Woodhouse WIKIDATA

Charles W. Traylen (Firm)

C Traylen Bookshop WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
In Latin.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Secundo folio: Primus mandentem disrumpit...
Collation: Parchment, fol. ii (early parchment) + 226 + i (early parchment) ; ii i6 I8−2 II8−1 III-X8 XI8−1 XII-XIII8 (quire XIV lacking) XV-XVII8 XVIII10 XIX-XXII8 XXIII8−2 XXIV-XXIX8. Lacking one leaf before fol. 9 (the first leaf of the temporale) and its conjugate after fol. 14 (i.e. the outermost bifolium of quire I), one leaf after fol. 17 (probably the initial for the Slaughter of the...
Layout: Two columns, 34 lines. Bounding and ruling lines in light plummet.
Script: Written in a gothic bookhand in brown ink with red rubrics. Square notation used for the 15th-century musical additions on fol. 225 and following.
Decoration: Four- to six-line "puzzle" initials in colors (pale pink, blue and green) on gold leaf with bars extending the entire height of the margin with leafy extensions, gold balls and grotesques into upper and lower margins, on fol. 15v (Christmas), fol. 19 (Epiphany), fol. 93 (Easter), fol. 105v (Ascension), fol. 142 (St. Andrew, to begin the Sanctorale), fol. 147v (Purification), fol...
Binding: Rebound in tawed calfskin in 2019. Formerly bound in 18th-century calf over pasteboard, gilt arms on both covers incorporating the Wentworth, de Neville, and Gascoigne arms, gilt fillet border. Spint gilt-stamped with florets in compartments, title "Breviarium" on red label on spine, front cover detached, rear cover nearly so, parchment pastedown with conjugate free flyleaves in...
Origin: Written in Yorkshire in the mid-fourteenth century, for the use of York. The calendar includes typical Yorkshire saints such as John, Archbishop of York (7 May and Translation, 25 October), Everildis (9 July), William, Archbishop of York (8 August), Wilfridus (12 October and Translation, 24 April), and the Feast of the Relics (9 October, a feastday devoted to the relics of York...
Provenance: Owned from the fifteenth century by the Gascoigne and de Neville families of Yorkshire, with birth and death notices added to the calendar: William Gascoigne (d. 8 March 1486--his mother was Joan de Neville), his wife Margaret (d. 6 Feb.), his daughters Margaret (b. 29 November ca. 1480?) and Elizabeth (b. 26 July 1476), his sons Thomas (b. 28 Feb. 1477) and Henry (b. 1 July 1482...
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased by BPL in 1956 from Charles W. Traylen (cat. 27, 1953, no. 40).
Call number: MS f Med.151.
Former call number: MS 1576.
Bibliography: BPL Quarterly IX (1957): 60-61.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Marginalia

Inscriptions

Manuscript waste

Manuscripts, Medieval

Illumination of books and manuscripts

Digital images

Missals (Service books)

devotional calendars

Gothic scripts

Bookplates

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444666

IIIF Manifest:

https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/0z709m34r/manifest

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library