Boston Public Library, MS f Med.261
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS3345
- Shelfmark:
- MS f Med.261
- Title:
- Epistola missa cuidam infecto predicatori in praga. Dyalogus lucidarii. Sermo bonus
- Date:
- not before 1385
- Language:
- lat
- Material:
- paper
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 72 leaves : paper ; 291 x 215 (198 x 140) mm bound to 30 cm
- Former Owner(s):
- Guerrini, Joachim, -1918
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
In Latin.
Secundo folio: qua angelus celum Adam paradisu[m] Saul.
Place of production unknown; possibly South Germany, Austria, or Czech Republic. Date surmised from contents of the Epistola and associated opinions of faculty at University of Vienna and University of Prague on the doctrinal views of Johann Müntzinger, a Dominican theologian who taught in Ulm until his censure in 1385.
Sources of information: 1. fol. 1r- 36v, Opening rubric: Epistola missa cuidam infecto predicatori in praga -- 2. fol. 37r-70r, Opening rubric: Dyalogus lucidarii -- 3. fol. 70v-72r, opening rubric: Sermo bonus.
Collation: Paper, fol. i (19th-century paper) + 72 + fol. i (19th-century paper) ; 1-612 ; horizontal catchwords in rubricated frame in margins of Epistola, horizontal unrubricated catchwords in Dyalogus lucidarii (1 trimmed by binder); With modern pencil foliation. Epistola missa and Dyalogus lucidarii have each been paginated in later Arabic numerals by the same hand. Alia dubia and other...
Layout: Epistola missa written in 2 columns, of 34 lines; frame ruled in light plummet, vertical bounding lines full-length. Dyalogus lucidarii written in 2 columns of 33-35 lines; frame ruled in ink. Sermo bonus in 2 columns 34 lines, with bounding lines ruled in pen with light brown ink.
Script: Written in a gothic hybrid, cursiva libraria[?].
Decoration: Epistola missa has large rubricated capital, flourished letters in top lines of text. The Alia dubia begins with large rubricated Q. Red and green decorated initials and paragraph marks are present in the university decrees of Vienna and Prague. Large red initials begin Dyalogus lucidarii and signal the beginning of Books 2 and 3. Large red capital letter begins the Sermo.
Binding: 19th-century sheep over pasteboard blindstamped with imitation period diaper pattern and harps; rebacked. Coral endsheets and acidic flyleaves. Modern auction number "1149" pencilled on front pastedown.
Origin: Written in South Germany, Austria, or Czech Republic in late fourteenth or early fiftenth century.
Immediate source of acquisition: Acquired by BPL in October 1878 from the auction house of Leonard & Co., Boston. Formerly in the collection of Joachim Guerrini, O.F.M., with his stamp on first leaf: "Ex libris ad usum Fr. Joachim Guerrini O.S.F. concessus."
From a volume which included additional manuscript material. Several works are introduced by a later hand on the preceding page; on 24r a 16-line paragraph describes the following declarations from 1385 of the universities of Vienna and Prague and the canon law faculty of Vienna, repeating the explicit of that section and the name of the scribe Casper Reuter. The same hand has added an...
Call number: MS f Med.261
Former call number: MS G.401.37
Bibliography: Lefèvre, Y. L'Elucidarium et les Lucidares. Paris: Boccard, 1954. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://bpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C8444678
- IIIF Manifest:
- http://www.archive.org/details/epistolamissacui00munt/manifest
- Holding Institution:
