Boston Public Library, MS f Med.5

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS3352

Shelfmark:

MS f Med.5

Title:

Franciscan missal : in Latin].

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Artist:

Studio of Niccolò da Bologna

Niccolò da Bologna WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy]

Italy TGN

Date:

ca. 1350

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 212 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 345 x 250 (235 x 180) mm bound to 37 cm

Former Owner(s):

Bullard, William N. 1853-1931

William N. Bullard WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
In Latin.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Secundo folio: Annus habet menses XII
Collation: Parchment, fol. i + 212 + i ; 12 24 (originally 16; what was originally the outermost bifolium has been misbound as the initial gathering of two), 310+2 (lacking unknown number of leaves before fol. 7, which appears to be conjugate with fol. 8), 4-1110 (lacking unknown number of leaves after fol. 79: catchword doesn't match, and the offset on fol. 79v indicates that it originally...
Layout: Two columns, 28 lines. Ruled in blind. Square notation on 3-line staff on fol. 84-102.
Script: Written in a gothic rotunda in black ink with red rubrics.
Decoration (primary): Initials, miniatures, and borders somewhat reminiscent of the style of Niccolò da Bologna (cf. Breslauer no. 70) and BPL MS pb Med.144 and 146. Four- to six-line initials in colors on gold with acanthus extending partially into margins on: fol. 103 (Easter Sunday, two initials) -- fol. 114v (Ascension, initial cut out) -- fol. 140 (4-line, St. Andrew, the opening of the...
Decoration (secondary): Two-line initials throughout in red with blue filigree or blue with red filigree and harping into margins; seventeen 4-to-6 line initials throughout sanctorale in similar style.
Binding: 15th-century calf laid on modern brown leather, rebacked. 15th-century portions blind-tooled and stamped with rosettes, spine gilt, 19th-century brown endpapers and flyleaves, clasps lacking.
Origin: Written in the mid-fourteenth century in Tuscany for Franciscan use, possibly illuminated in the workshop of Niccolò da Bologna. Calendar includes Sts. Anthilia (2/15), Rainerius (6/17, added sixteenth century), Mustiola (7/3), Louis (8/19, Franciscan), Francis (10/4), and Ansanus (12/1, in red, special veneration in Siena). Lower blank margins removed from 18 leaves (fol. 7, 8, 9, 10...
Immediate source of acquisition: Given (18 Nov. 1896) by Dr. W. N. Bullard, see pencil notation fol. 3r.
Call number: MS f Med.5.
Former call number: MS G.401.3.
Bibliography: Zoltan Haraszti, "Medieval Manuscripts in The Library," More Books III (1928): 57; W. Voelke. and R. Wieck, The Bernard Breslauer Collection of Manuscript Illuminations (New York, 1991).

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Illumination of books and manuscripts

Manuscripts, Medieval

Missals (Service books)

Wooden boards

devotional calendars

Gothic scripts

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444685

IIIF Manifest:

https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/1z40pq68t/manifest

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library