Boston Public Library, MS f Med.22

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DS ID:

DS3340

Shelfmark:

MS f Med.22

Title:

De re militari].

Author:

Vegetius Renatus, Flavius

Vegetius WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy]

Italy TGN

Date:

ca. 1450

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

In Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 70 leaves : parchment ; 245 x 170 (148 x 93 mm), in box 28 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 supplied by cataloger.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Secundo folio: Incipit prologus primi libri.
Collation: Parchment, fol. ii (paper and vellum) + 70 + ii (paper) ; 1-710 ; vertical catchwords in lower right corner, final verso of each quire. Contemporary Roman numerals in red ink, upper right corner of each recto, begins with "I" on fol. 2, so reaches LXIX instead of LXX.
Layout: One column, 26 lines. Bounding and writing lines in light plummet.
Script: Written in a humanistic bookhand in black ink with red rubrics.
Decoration: 3-line blue or red epigraphic capitals opening each book; 14-line initial "P" on fol. 1 in gold with white-vine infill on colors, armorial medallion in lower margin in same scheme.
Binding: 19th-century red velvet over pasteboards, paper pastedowns and endleaves, title gilt on leather spine-label, "VEGETIUS/DE RE/ MILITARI/ M.S. IN/ MEMBRANIS," all edges gilt. Housed in a tan cloth clamshell box.
Origin: Written in Italy in the mid-15th century.
Provenance: Effaced arms of early owner in a medallion in the lower margin of fol. 1, effaced object (a tower?) on azure to which are attached two ribbons argent; scraped inscription in the upper margin of fol. 1, not legible under ultra-violet light but possibly 17th-century; owned by Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Barrois (1784-1855), his 1849 sale (no. 102, with Ashburnham's green Barrois-collection...
Immediate source of acquisition: Ashburnham sale, Sotheby's London, 10 June 1901, lot 599 (lot number written inside front cove) 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.22.
Former call number: MS G.38.21.
Bibliography: Zoltan Haraszti, "Medieval Manuscripts in the Library," More Books III (1928): 67 (this description pasted inside front cover)

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Latin

decorated initials

humanistic scripts

Inscriptions

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Embossed stamps

Manuscripts, Medieval

Velvet bindings

Rome (Empire)

Military art and science

Military history, Medieval

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444673

IIIF Manifest:

https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/4168bm13f/manifest

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library