Boston Public Library, MS pb Med.157
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS3379
- Shelfmark:
- MS pb Med.157
- Title:
- Single leaf from a 15th-century book of hours : in Latin].
- Catholic Church
- Place:
- France]
- Date:
- between 1475 and 1499
- Language:
- lat
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 1 leaf : parchment, ill. ; 257 x 175 (153 x 105) mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Leo S. Olschki (Firm)
- Note:
- Ms. leaf.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Layout: Single column, 18 lines. Bounding and writing lines in red ink, bounding lines full-length.
Script: Written in a Gothic bookhand in black ink with red rubrics.
Decoration: Verse initials in gold on red or blue with gilt filigree infill; line fillers geometric in similar scheme; on verso, outer border of scrolling acanthus with small gold dots and a gold band with floriated decoration, a snail-like grotesque in the center; on the recto, three-quarter-page illustration of Job at prayer on the dungheap (at left), a crowd of nobly-dressed friends at the...
Binding: Housed in an oversize manilla folder.
Origin: Written in France at the end of the fifteenth century, from the same manuscript as MS pb. Med. 145.
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased in 1954 from Olschki.
Call number: MS pb Med.157.
Former call number: MS 1582. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444714
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/s4655v63p/manifest
- Holding Institution:
