Boston Public Library, MS f Med.78

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DS ID:

DS3356

Shelfmark:

MS f Med.78

Title:

Epistles : in Latin].

Author:

Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420

Jerome WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy]

Italy TGN

Date:

between 1425 and 1475

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

In Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 321 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 344 x 245 (253 x 161) mm

Former Owner(s):

Brick Row Bookshop

Brick Row Book Shop WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Secundo folio: Ad marcellam de diapsalma ...
Collation: Parchment, fol. ii + 321 + ii ; 1-3110 3210+1 (fol. 321 is a tipped-in singleton) ; some catchwords preserved in extreme lower right corner of final verso. Contemporary Roman numerals in brown ink, upper right recto, numbers fol. 3 as "i" and so reaches "cccxix" instead of 321. Modern arabic foliation in pencil, upper outer corner of each page.
Layout: Two columns, 44 lines. Vertical bounding lines in blind or light plummet.
Script: Written in a humanistic bookhand in brown ink with red rubrics.
Decoration: Each epistle begins with a three-line epigraphic capital alternating blue with red harping and penwork or red with purple. Seven-line white vine initial in gold on colors on fol. 3, extending full height of inner margin with blank armorial within a green wreath with white vine extensions in gold and colors in lower margin.
Binding: Modern blind-stamped calf over pasteboard, gilt-fillet board edges and turn-ins, all edges gilt, spine gilt in compartments, "S. HIERONYMUS/ EPISTOLAE" and "MS/ XV. SAEC." Vellum pastedowns and endleaves, decorative head and tailbands, by J. and J. Leighton.
Origin: Written in Italy in the mid-15th century. The sequence of epistles in collections such as this varies significantly from manuscript to manuscript; the order in the present copy is very similar to that in several other 15th-century Italian collections: London, British Library Burney 322; Florence, Bibl. Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. XIX, cod. 12; and Milan, Bibl. Ambrosiana, C.250.Inf. The...
Provenance: Belonged to Henry White, his sale at Sotheby's London 21 April 1902, lot 1057. Sold by Leighton, 1912, lot 139. Sold by Sotheby's London on 4 March 1920 and again on 11 April 1938.
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased in 1939 from The Brick Row Bookshop.
Call number: MS f Med.78.
Former call number: MS 1484.
Bibliography: More Books/BPL Quarterly XIV (1939): 229; B. Lambert, Bibliotheca Hieronymiana Manuscripta (Steenbrugis, 1969): I:144 (nr. 0)

Keyword:

humanistic scripts

Manuscripts, Medieval

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Illumination of books and manuscripts

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444689

IIIF Manifest:

https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/00003742g/manifest

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library