Boston Public Library, MS f Med.83
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS3357
- Shelfmark:
- MS f Med.83
- Title:
- Breviary : Franciscan use : in Latin].
- Catholic Church
- Scribe:
- Jacobus, de Mutina
- Place:
- Bologna?]
- Date:
- between 1317 and 1350?
- Language:
- lat
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 374 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 301 x 215 (197 x 153) mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Maggs Bros
Jacques Rosenthal (Firm)
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
In Latin.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Secundo folio: Februarius habet dies xxviii ...
Collation: Parchment, fol. ii (paper) + 374 + ii (paper) ; 1-2210 238 24-3210 3312 344 35-3810 (the temporale ends at the end of quire 23 and the sanctorale at the end of quire 34, with originally blank leaves at the end of each quire, suggesting that the manuscript may have originally been divided into three volumes) ; signatures extant in far lower right rectos, fol. 319-323. Modern arabic...
Layout: Two columns, 32 lines. Vertical bounding lines ruled in blind or light plummet.
Script: Written in a gothic rotunda in brown ink, the hand of Jacobus de Mutina (colophon on fol. 373v).
Decoration: Red rubrics. Single- and two-line epigraphic capitals throughout alternating blue with red harping and penwork or red with blue or purple; eight- and five-line initials in gold and colors on fol. 11; 22 five- to eight-line historiated initials in gold and colors with acanthus and gold balls, in the temporale and the opening of the Commons; 32 eight- to ten-line rectangular...
Binding: 18th-century calf over pasteboards, gilt red label on spine, "BREVIATRIUM/ MS. MEMBRAN./ PER IACOBUM/ DE MUTINA." Marbled paper pastedowns and conjugate endleaves, paper flyleaves.
Origin: Written in Italy, probably Bologna (based on style and palette of the miniatures), in the second quarter of the fourteenth century. The colophon on fol. 373v reads "Explicit breviarium scriptum per manum dompni Jacobi de Mutina"; the scribe, Jacobus de Mutina, is known only from this manuscript. The breviary must have been written after the year 1317, since the calendar includes the...
Provenance: Offered for sale by J. Rosenthal in 1901 (nr. 792) and 1905 (nr. 89). Sold Sotheby's London, 4 June 1934, lot 32 to Maggs.
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased from Maggs in 1939 (cat. 672, no. 9)
Call number: MS f Med.83.
Former call number: MS 1509.
Bibliography: E. Oldham, "An Early Franciscan Breviary," More Books III (1951): 276-279; H. Walther, "Initia carminum ac versuum medii aevi posterioris latinorum," Carmina medii aevi posterioris, ii (1963-1967) - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444690
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/ks65mw91d/manifest
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