Boston Public Library, MS pb Med.185

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DS ID:

DS3399

Shelfmark:

MS pb Med.185

Title:

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

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy]

Italy TGN

Date:

between 1475 and 1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 4 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 553 x 392 (390 x 290) mm

Former Owner(s):

Libreria antiquaria Hoepli

Libreria antiquaria Hoepli WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. leaves.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Script: Written in a gothic rotunda in black ink with red rubrics. Early Roman foliation alternating red and blue letters, outer center margin of each recto; a was ff. IV and V, and b was ff. CXXXV and CXLII. "Dom." tab on outer edge of f. a1, added ca. 17th century, marking the first Psalm for Sunday.
Layout: 1 column, 15 lines. Bounding lines in blind, full-length. Comprised of two bifolia: the two leaves comprising bilfolium a are consecutive; they were the innermost bifolium of their quire. Bifolium b was the outermost bifolium of its quaternion, lacking three bifolia between its two leaves; it has been folded backwards, so the catchword appears on b1 verso instead of the verso of the...
Decoration: Two four-line floriated historiated initials in colors on gold, a few acanthus swirls in upper and/or lower margin: f. 4 (i.e. a1 recto), King David on a green hillside playing the harp; on f. 135v (i.e. B2 verso), King David at prayer, God visible in the heavenly aperture above. Verse initials alternate red and blue epigraphic capitals. the miniatures attributed in the Supplement...
Binding: Housed in an oversize manila folder.
Origin: Written in northern Italy in the fourth quarter of the 15th century.
Immediate source of acquisition: Acquired in 1957 from Hoepli, Milan.
Call number: MS pb Med.185.
Former call number: BPL MS 1610 and MS 1611.

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=8444734

IIIF Manifest:

https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/3r076q67b/manifest

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library