Boston Public Library, MS pb Med.175
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS3389
- Shelfmark:
- MS pb Med.175
- Title:
- Cutting from a 15th-century Bible; in Latin
- Catholic Church
- Place:
- Belgium
- Date:
- between 1475 and 1499
- Language:
- lat
- Material:
- parchment, ill.
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 1 item : parchment, ill. ; 64 x 64 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Maggs Bros
- Note:
- Ms. fragment.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Script: Written in a Gothic cursive in black ink with red rubrics.
Decoration: 11-line initial [A] in blue with white filigree on gold, historiated with Aaron (at left, in Bishop's robes holding a censer) and Moses, plagues of frogs and locusts on the ground, both figures gazing at the face of God in the heavenly aperture above.
Binding: Housed in an oversized folder. Formerly attached to vellum sheet 230 x 175 mm
Origin: Written in Flanders in the third quarter of the fifteenth century.
Provenance: No. 37 in dealer's hand on vellum sheet, probably the leaf's number in the dealer's portfolio, as on BPL pb. Med. 174. Same dealer's handwritten description on the vellum sheet reads "Flemish or Dutch: late xv century/ Initial "A," showing Aaron (with censer) and Moses before the Almighty; also, the plagues of locusts and of frogs. [Exodus, chaps. viii & x.]"
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased in 1957 from Maggs.
Call number: MS pb Med.175.
Former call number: MS 1600. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://bpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C8444724
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/s4655v878/manifest
- Holding Institution:
