Boston Public Library, MS f Med.21

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DS ID:

DS3339

Shelfmark:

MS f Med.21

Title:

Epigrammata].

Author:

Martial

Martial WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy]

Italy TGN

Date:

25 July?] 1453.

eighth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

In Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 150 leaves : paper ; 294 x 195 (181 x 93) mm bound to 30 cm

Former Owner(s):

Barrois, Joseph, approximately 1785-1855

Joseph Barrois WIKIDATA

Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of, 1797-1878

Bertram Ashburnham, 4th Earl of Ashburnham WIKIDATA

Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962

Sydney Cockerell WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title devised by cataloger.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Secundo folio: De dedalo/ Dedale lucano...
Collation: Paper with watermarks: scales (similar to Briquet 2444) and a bull's head with 5-petaled flower above and triangle with three dots below (Briquet 14872, produced in fifteenth-century Brescia - see Briquet III:731), fol. ii (19th-century paper and contemporary vellum) + 150 + i (19th-century paper) ; 1-1510 ; vertical catchwords in lower right corner, final verso of each quire...
Layout: One column, 36 lines. Bounding and writing lines in brown plummet.
Script: Written in a humanistic bookhand, with some ligatures and cursive tendencies, in brown ink with red rubrics.
Decoration: 10-line spaces left for initials at the beginning of each book, unfilled.
Binding: Ca.-18th-century quarter calf with red floral diamond-patterned printed paper over pasteboards, floral stamp in each spine compartment. On red lettering-pieces, "M VALERI/ MARTIAL/ EPIGRAM," and "M.S.". At tail, BPL stamp "G.31.82." On upper cover inked number "64".
Origin: Written in Lombardy in 1453. See colophon, in red, on fol. 150v.
Provenance: Owned by Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Barrois (1784-1855), his 1849 sale (no. 496) to Bertram, 4rth Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878).
Immediate source of acquisition: Ashburnham sale, Sotheby's London, 10 June 1901, lot 380 (lot number written inside front cover) to Sydney Cockerell for the Boston Public Library (BPL bookplate inside front cover, embossed on fol. 1, Cockerell's notes inside front cover).
Call number: MS f Med.21.
Former call number: MS G.31.82.
Bibliography: Zoltan Haraszti, "Medieval Manuscripts in The Library," More Books III (1928): 64 (this description pasted inside front cover).

Keyword:

humanistic scripts

Pasteboard

Inscriptions

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Embossed stamps

Manuscripts, Medieval

Woodblock-printed papers

Bookplates

Epigrams, Latin

Rome (Empire)

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444672

IIIF Manifest:

https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/bn99dc782/manifest

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library