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.
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