Boston Public Library, MS f Med.9

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS3364

Shelfmark:

MS f Med.9

Title:

Explanatio Psalmorum XII].

Author:

Ambrose, Saint, Bishop of Milan, -397

Ambrose WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy]

Italy TGN

Date:

between 1400 and 1450

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 168 leaves : parchment ; 254 x 178 mm (172 x 107 mm), in box 29 cm

Former Owner(s):

Barbaro, Francesco, 1390-1454

Francesco Barbaro WIKIDATA

Barrois, Joseph, approximately 1785-1855

Joseph Barrois WIKIDATA

Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of, 1797-1878

Bertram Ashburnham, 4th Earl of Ashburnham WIKIDATA

Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962

Sydney Cockerell WIKIDATA

Collegio di San Barnaba (Milan, Italy)

San Barnaba Church WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
In Latin.
Title devised by cataloger.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Secundo folio: ...tis in cordibus vestris...
Collation: Parchment, fol. 168 ; 1-218 ; decorative catchwords in lower center margin of last verso of each quire. Modern arabic pencil foliation, upper outer corner of each page (1r, 1v, etc.).
Script: Written in a humanistic bookhand in black ink with some spaces for rubrics left blank, others filled with 2-line epigraphic capitals in black ink. Spaces left for 3-line initials, some later filled with black epigraphic capitals.
Layout: One column, 32 lines. Ruled in light plummet, some prickings preserved for bounding lines.
Binding: Parchment over boards (possibly re-used, with evidence of previous clasps and tooling), sewn on four split-leather thongs, clasps lacking, 17th-century title on spine "S./Ambrosii/in Psalm" and "manuscr". "S. Ambrosii in Psa." Round green Barrois spine label, "88." Housed in tan cloth clamshell box.
Origin: Written in Italy in the first half of the fifteenth century.
Provenance: Contemporary ownership inscription of the Venetian patrician Francesco Barbaro (1390-1454) inside front cover: "Iste S. Ambrosius super psalmus est francisci barbari patricii veneti." 17th century inscription on f. 1r: "Colegii S. Barnabae," presumably St. Barnabas in Milan; Barbaro was the Venetian ambassador to Milan in 1446, which may have been when the manuscript came to that...
Immediate source of acquisition: Ashburnham sale, Sotheby's London, 10 June 1901, lot 12 to Sydney Cockerell for the Boston Public Library (Cockerell's notes on front flyleaf).
Call number: MS f Med.9.
Former call number: MS G.38.48.
Bibliography: Zoltan Haraszti, "Medieval Manuscripts in The Library," More Books III (1928): 58.

Keyword:

humanistic scripts

Inscriptions

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Illumination of books and manuscripts

Vellum bindings

Manuscripts, Medieval

Bible. Psalms

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444699

IIIF Manifest:

https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/qj72s7627/manifest

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library