Boston Public Library, MS f Med.29

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS3348

Shelfmark:

MS f Med.29

Title:

Vie de Ihesucrist].

Author:

Pseudo-Bonaventure

Pseudo-Bonaventure WIKIDATA

Place:

France or Flanders

France TGN

Date:

1454

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

fre

French WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 142 leaves : paper ; 277 x 208 (208 x 160) mm bound to 29 cm

Former Owner(s):

Rineck, André de, 1444-1527

André de Rineck WIKIDATA

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.
In French.
Title from opening rubric.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Secundo folio: Du sacrement du corps ...
Collation: Paper, with watermarks: scales, similar to Briquet 2426, fol. i (19th-century paper) + 142 + i (19th-century paper) ; 13 2-188 93 ; catchwords in red frame, lower center of final verso of each quire. Original Roman foliation, upper right corner of each recto, begins with [i] on f. 4, so reaches cxxxix instead of 142; modern pencil foliation, upper outer corner of each page, used...
Layout: One column, 32 lines. Bounding and writing lines ruled in blind.
Script: Written in a bâtarde script in brown ink with red rubrics.
Decoration: Chapters and books begin with 2-line red epigraphic capitals; Biblical quotes underlined red, sentence initials stroked red.
Binding: 19th-century green morocco over pasteboard; blind double-fillet border on covers, gilt-fillet turn-ins and board edges, spine gilt in compartments, with title labels "VIE/ JHESVCRIST/mMS. 1454"; brittle paper pastedowns and endleaves, joints weakening.
Origin: Written in N. France or Flanders in 1454.
Provenance: Owned soon after creation by Andre Ryneck, his arms in the lower margin of fol. 4 (a ram on red ground surmounted by a Catherine wheel and a cross). Given by Ryneck to a community of Poor Clares in 1481, donation inscription on fol. 3v: "Donne au nouviau convent des povres soers de sainte clare de par monsiegneur andreu de rineck lan mille cccclxxxi prijes pour ly." "New" convents...
Immediate source of acquisition: Acquired by Sydney Cockerell for the Boston Public Library (BPL bookplate inside front cover, embossed on fol. 1-2, Cockerell's notes inside front cover; Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts 198000).
Call number: MS f Med.29.
Former call number: MS G.31.72.
Bibliography: Zoltan Haraszti, "Medieval Manuscripts in The Library," in More Books III (1928): 69.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, French

Manuscripts, Medieval

Inscriptions

Embossed stamps

Digital images

Gothic scripts

Bookplates

Jesus Christ

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444681

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archivelab.org/iiif/viedejhesucristi00joha/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library