Boston Public Library, MS q Med.16
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS3335
- Shelfmark:
- MS q Med.16
- Title:
- Aurora
- Peter Riga, approximately 1140-1209
- Place:
- France?
- Date:
- between 1225 and 1275
- Language:
- lat
- Material:
- parchment
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 133 leaves : parchment ; 243 x 165 (175 x 65) mm bound to 26 x 17 cm
- Former Owner(s):
- Barrois, Joseph, approximately 1785-1855
Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of, 1797-1878
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: Nomen designant flumina...
Collation: Parchment, fol. 133 ; 1-148 156 168 178−1 (final leaf cancelled). Folios 58/63, 66/71, 91/94, and 98/103 originally conjugate, now sewn- or tipped-in singletons. The bifolia of quire 12 (fol. 89-96) are bound out of order. The two leaves that had originally been been the outermost leaves (fol. 89/96 and fol. 90/95) have been rebound as the innermost leaves of this quire and the...
Layout: One column, 48-53 lines. Ruled in light plummet.
Script: Written in an early gothic bookhand in black ink with red rubrics.
Decoration: 2-line chapter initials throughout alternating red with blue filigree or vice versa; 11-line initial [F] on fol. 1r as a dragon in red and blue, tail extending down the outer margin; dragon in lower margin fol. 1r in blue and red with blue and red filigree "flames" extending the width of the lower margin. Biblical genealogical diagrams in outer margins of most fol. from 3-20, the...
Binding: 18th century brown calf over pasteboard, calf partially red-rotted, spine in compartments, title gilt "Petrus de Riga," green Barrois spine label "14[9]," edges spackled red.
Origin: Written in France in the mid-13th century.
Provenance: Marginal annotations throughout, contemporary and somewhat later. Ex libris from the fifteenth or sixteenth century on fol. 1r, read by de Ricci as "Desideratus Theres," but this seems an unlikely reading. The inscription is partially effaced, and appears to read "Ex libris d. di[ ]id. bati [ ]orast [ ]tigrosi." Owned by Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Barrois (1784-1855); his 1849 sale (n...
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased at the Ashburnham sale Sotheby's London, 10 June 1901, lot 469 to Sydney Cockerell for the Boston Public Library (Cockerell's notes on front flyleaf).
Call number: MS q Med.16.
Former call number: MS G.31.76.
Bibliography: P. Beichner, Aurora: Petri Rigae Biblia versificata (Notre Dame, 1965); G. Dinkova-Bruun, "Additions to Peter Riga's Aurora in paris, Bibliotheque Nationale de France Lat. 13050," Medieval studies 69 (2007): 1-58; Zoltan Haraszti, "Medieval manuscripts in the library," More Books III (1928): 63. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://bpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C8444668
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/ng454j495/manifest
- Holding Institution:
