Ms. codex. In Latin. Title devised by cataloger. Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis. (MS f Med.3) 56 leaves, paper and parchment ; 298 x 215 (230 x 145) mm. (MS f Med.4) 88 leaves, paper and parchment ; 302 x 212 (234 x 142) mm, in box to 34 cm. Secundo folio: [MS f Med. 3]: ...a maiori denominatur; [MS f Med. 4]: ...planus in principius. Collation: Paper, with watermark: bull's head with five-petal flower above, cross below (similar to Briquet 14777). Parchment innermost bifolia of each quire and the outermost of the first quire of MS f Med.3 (eleven leaves of MS f Med.3 and fourteen leaves of MS f Med.4). Two volumes of an originally larger volume or multi-volume set. MS f Med.3: fol. ii + 56 + ii ; MS f Med. 4: fol. i + 88... Layout: Two columns, 47 lines. Ruled by creasing or in blind. Script: Written in a gothic cursive in black ink with red underlining of biblical citations, red rubrics. Decoration: 1-to-2 line enlarged red or blue initials throughout. Binding: 19th-century green marbled paper over pasteboard, black morocco spine, gilt-stamped, marbled endpapers, lower edge of MS f Med.4 striped, leather thumb tabs on outer edges of text block. Origin: Written in "Paradisus" Abbey, Germany (possibly Düren), by "John, Abbot at Paradiso," in 1471. Provenance: From abbey identified by de Ricci as Paradies, near Posen, or Paradies, near Soest. As the former is in modern-day Poland and the latter was a nunnery, neither of these is a likely place of origin for this manuscript, written in a German region in a community of men. Of the abbeys bearing some version of the name "Paradisus" listed in Cottineau's Répertoire topo-bibliographique des... Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased from the sale of Joachim Guerrini's library on Oct. 8 1878 (Leonard & Co., Boston, lot no. 1154) with the Pierce Fund (Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts 42794 and 197847). Call number: MS f Med.3-4. Former call number: Q.450.1 and Q.450.2.
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