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.
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