Boston Public Library, MS pb Med.167

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS3382

Shelfmark:

MS pb Med.167

Title:

Cutting from a ca. 15th-century ferial psalter : in Latin].

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy]

Italy TGN

Date:

between 1400 and 1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 item : parchment, ill. ; 115 x 105 mm

Former Owner(s):

Libreria antiquaria Hoepli

Libreria antiquaria Hoepli WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. fragment.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Script: Written in a Gothic rotunda in black ink.
Decoration: On the recto, a three-line high [D] in dark salmon on blue with white filigree highlights, historiated with St. Francis standing with book, cruciform staff, and stigmata.
Binding: Housed in an oversize manilla folder.
Origin: Written in Italy in the fifteenth century, probably a Ferial Psalter for Franciscan use. "Inclinavit dominus" is the opening antiphon for Feria 2 (Monday); its incipit here is followed, as is typical, by Psalm 114. It seems likely, therefore, that this miniature of St. Francis in the letter [D] stood at the beginning of the Psalm and that the manuscript from which it was cut was a...
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased in 1953 from Hoepli.
Call number: MS pb Med.167.
Former call number: MS 1592.
Bibliography: Boston Public Library Quarterly VII (1955), p.75.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Illumination of books and manuscripts

Manuscripts, Medieval

Digital images

Psalters

Gothic scripts

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444717

IIIF Manifest:

https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/s4655v69b/manifest

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library