Boston Public Library, MS pb Med.152
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS3374
- Shelfmark:
- MS pb Med.152
- Title:
- Single leaf from a 15th-century missal : in Latin].
- Catholic Church
- Place:
- France]
- Date:
- ca. 1450
- Language:
- lat
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 1 leaf : parchment, ill. ; 413 x 284 (295 x 195) mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Nicolas Rauch S.A
- Note:
- Ms. leaf.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Layout: Two columns (each 90 mm wide), 27 lines. Bounding and writing lines in light plummet, bounding lines full-length.
Script: Written in a gothic bookhand in black ink with red rubrics.
Decoration: Two- or three-line initials throughout in red with blue penwork or vice versa; on the verso, six-line [S] in blue with white filigree highlights in a gold frame, historiated with St. Nicholas, in Bishop's robes with mitre and crozier, resuscitating the three youths who stand in a barrel; half border (full height of the outer margin and width of the outer column) of black tendrils...
Binding: Housed in an oversize folder.
Origin: Written in France in the mid-fifteenth century. St. Evasius rarely venerated outside of Lombardy.
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased from Nicholas Rauch in 1955.
Call number: MS pb Med.152.
Former call number: MS 1577.
Bibliography: Netzer, N. ed., Secular/Sacred 11th -- 16th Century Works from the Boston Public Library and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston College, 2006), nr. 56. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444709
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/s4655v51w/manifest
- Holding Institution:
