Boston Public Library, MS f Med.75
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS3354
- Shelfmark:
- MS f Med.75
- Title:
- De viris illustribus /
- Place:
- France
- Date:
- ca. 1150
- Language:
- lat
- Material:
- parchment, ill.
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 112 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 325 x 217 (243 x 265) mm bound to 34 cm in box 35 cm
- Former Owner(s):
- Newcastle, Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham Clinton, Duke of, 1785-1851
Newcastle, Henry Pelham Archibald Douglas Pelham-Clinton, 7th Duke of, 1864-1928
Abbaye d'Anchin (Pecquencourt, France)
Saint-Amand-les-Eaux (Abbey)
Maggs Bros
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
In Latin.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Secundo folio: Stephanus sedit annos iii ...
Collation: Parchment, fol. i (paper) + 112 + i (paper) ; 16+1 (fol. 7 singleton) 28 36+1 (fol. 18 singleton) 4-88 910 10-148 ; signed on the final verso of each quire: i, ii, [quire 3 unsigned], A-L (skips [J]). Fol. 1-22 are codicologically distinct from fol. 23-112, using a different page layout and signature scheme. This suggests that the two parts were originally conceived as distinct...
Layout: Fol. 1-22v: one column, writing space 251 x 164 mm, 35 lines; fol. 23-112: two columns, 41 lines. Bounding and writing lines ruled in blind.
Script: Written in a romanesque script by one scribe (fol. 1-22v slightly larger module) in brown ink with inter-textual rubrics in red half-uncial; incipit or explicit rubrics in alternating lines of red and green in epigraphic capitals, some guides preserved in margins.
Decoration: White-vine historiated initials in green and red on fol. 18 (9-line "V," Jerome seated presenting a scroll of the text's incipit to Vincentius and Gallienus, the addressees of the preface) -- fol. 72v (10-line "D," Sigebert seated at a writing desk, holding a quill in his right hand and a knife for erasures in his left) -- and fol. 75 (18-line "T," Emperor Theodosius enthroned...
Binding: Ca.-1830 English mottled calf over pasteboard, gilt arms of the 4th Duke of Newcastle (Henry Pelham-Clinton (1785-1851)) on front cover, with motto "Honi soit qui mal y pense"; red leather gilt labels on spine, "LIBER/ B. HIERONYMI/ DE VIRIS/ ILLUSTRIBUS" and "SIGEBERTI/ GEMBLACENSIS/ CHRONICON/ AD ANN. 1014;" paper pastedowns and flyleaves, decorative head and tailbands. Housed in...
Origin: Produced in Saint-Amand (northern France) after the papacy of Callixtus IV, i.e. between 1119-1125, soon after the death of Sigebert of Gembloux in 1112, making this one of the earliest copies of Sigebert's text. Patricia Stirnemann has demonstrated that the manuscript was written in the abbey of Anchin and decorated at Saint-Amand, both in the far North of France. The script is...
Provenance: The manuscript is identifiable as number CCLIII in the mid 12th-century inventory of St-Amand manuscripts, where it is described as "Ieronimi cronica, sequentibus cronicis Prosperi et Sigeberti." It is not recorded in the 1635 inventory and had in all likelihood left the library by then. Old library number 13 on fol. 1; sold by Payne and Foss in 1825, lot 9159 (number written...
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased by the BPL from Maggs via the James Lyman Whitney Fund in March 1938.
Call number: MS f Med.75.
Former call number: MS 1481.
Bibliography: Jeffrey Hamburger, et al., eds. Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections. (Chestnut Hill: McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2016), no. 21; Julius Desilve, De schola Elnonensi Sancti Amandi a saeculo IX ad XII usque (Louvain, 1890), 154-177; Honor McCusker, "A XIIth Century Manuscript of St. Jerome," in More Books/BPL Quarterly XIV (1939): 95-105... - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://bpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C8444687
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/v692th41z/manifest
- Holding Institution:
