Boston Public Library, MS f Med.18

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DS ID:

DS3337

Shelfmark:

MS f Med.18

Title:

Martyrologium].

Author:

Usuard, -876 or 877

Usuard WIKIDATA

Place:

Flanders]

Flanders TGN

Date:

1425.

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 227 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 355 x 240 (227 x 165) mm bound to 38 x 26 cm

Former Owner(s):

Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962

Sydney Cockerell WIKIDATA

Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of, 1797-1878

Bertram Ashburnham, 4th Earl of Ashburnham WIKIDATA

Barrois, Joseph, approximately 1785-1855

Joseph Barrois WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
In Latin.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Secundo folio: XVIII b XVII KL
Collation: Parchment, fol. i + 226 ; 1-278 2810 ; some signatures preserved in lower right corner recto, e.g. [b1], indicating that quire 5 was signed [a], quire 6 was [b], etc. Catchwords preserved in lower right corner of final verso of a few quires, usually only when the following recto is a text page, not a calendrical chart. Modern arabic foliation in pencil, every 25 leaves, lower right...
Layout: One or two columns, 24 or 40 lines. Bounding and writing lines in black ink.
Script: Written in a gothic bookhand (fol. 217 in a different hand, possibly slightly later) in black ink with red rubrics (some rubricator guides preserved in lower margin). 2-line initials throughout in red with blue filigree or vice versa, some guide letters preserved in outer margin; 2-to 3-line gold initials at Kalends of each month, eleven in all (lacking that for April) filled with and...
Decoration: 15 illuminated initials; ornamental pen letters on every page.
Binding: Early diaper-scored pigskin over boards, with double-fillet border, rebacked, "Martiro[lo]gium" written in large square gothic letters on front cover, original metal clasps and fastenings on modern leather straps, spine in compartments with gilt-stamped red and green leather labels, "Martyrologium/Versus paschales/ Provinciale/ in membranis/saec. XV." Original parchment pastedowns and...
Origin: Written in Flanders in 1425 (see colophon on fol. 216v). The calendar includes numerous Flemish saints, among them Amandus (6 February, in red), Eleuterius, Bishop of Tournai (20 February), Leandrus, Bishop of Trier (27 February), Gertrude (17 March, spelled with Flemish orthography, "Gheertrudis"), Georgius (23 April, in red), Amalberga (10 July, in red), Gengulphus (12 October, a...
Provenance: 17th-century inscriptions on fol. 1 (noting the location of the colophon) and 215v (adding the title to the Versiculi Paschales); 17th-century shelfmark inside front cover ("+ M + /208"). Owned by Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Barrois (1784-1855), his 1849 sale (n. 131) to Bertram, the Fourth Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878). Annotations of Sir Sydney Cockerell at front: "Martyrologium...
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased for the BPL by Syndey Cockerell at the Ashburnham sale, Sotheby's London June 13, 1901 lot 382.
Call number: MS f Med.18.
Former call number: MS G.31.88.
Bibliography: Zoltan Haraszti, "Medieval Manuscripts in The Library," More Books III (1928): 63 (this description pasted inside front cover).

Keyword:

Catches

Clasps

Marginalia

Inscriptions

Embossed stamps

Illumination of books and manuscripts

Manuscripts, Medieval

devotional calendars

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444670

IIIF Manifest:

https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/ft84ct060/manifest

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library