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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

Evangeliary

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

Spain

Spain TGN

Date:

between 1450 and 1550

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment, ill.

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 leaf : parchment, ill. ; 380 x 265 (268 x 180) mm

Former Owner(s):

Maggs Bros

Maggs Bros Ltd WIKIDATA

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:

Digital images

Manuscripts, Medieval

Spain

Gothic scripts

Evangeliaries

illuminations (paintings)

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Massachusetts--Boston

Institutional Record:

https://bpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C8444732

IIIF Manifest:

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Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library