Boston Public Library, MS pb Med.183
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS3397
- Shelfmark:
- MS pb Med.183
- Title:
- Single leaf from a late 15th- or early 16th-century evangeliarium : in Latin].
- Catholic Church
- Place:
- Spain]
- Date:
- between 1450 and 1550
- Language:
- lat
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 1 leaf : parchment, ill. ; 380 x 265 (268 x 180) mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Maggs Bros
- Note:
- Ms. leaf.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Script: Written in a Spanish gothic rotunda in black ink with red rubrics.
Layout: 1 column, 21 lines.
Decoration: Elaborate, full floriate borders in gold on colors with compartments outlined with gold leaf: on the recto, flowers and foliage on solid red, blue or gold backgrounds; on the verso, scrolling acanthus emerging from vases, a woman in the center lower margin.
Binding: Housed in an oversize manila folder.
Origin: Written in Spain in the late 15th or early 16th century.
Provenance: The present leaf removed from the same manuscript as two leaves held at the Detroit Institute of Art (59.62A and 59.62B) and a single leaf at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (MS 719).
Immediate source of acquisition: Acquired in 1957 from Maggs.
Call number: MS pb Med.183.
Former call number: BPL MS 1608. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444732
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/3r076q61p/manifest
- Holding Institution:
