Boston Public Library, MS pb Med.187

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS3401

Shelfmark:

MS pb Med.187

Title:

Single leaf from a late 15th-century biblical commentary : in German].

Place:

Germany]

Germany TGN

Date:

between 1480 and 1489

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ger

German WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 leaf : parchment, ill. ; 375 x 275 (240 x 153) mm

Former Owner(s):

Branners Bibliofile Antikvariat

Branners Bibliofile Antikvariat WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. leaf.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Script: Written in a Gothic formata in black ink with red rubrics.
Layout: 1 column, 31 lines. Vertical bounding lines only, in black ink and full-length.
Decoration: In the outer margin of the recto, ink-and-wash portraits of the evangelist symbols for Mark (a lion), Luke (a bull) and John (an eagle), each approximately seven lines high.
Binding: Housed in an oversize manila folder.
Origin: Written in Germany in the 1480s, from the same manuscript as BPL MS q Med.179.
Immediate source of acquisition: Acquired in 1957 from Branner's Antikvariat, Stockholm; dealer's notes in pencil on both sides.
Call number: MS pb Med.187.
Former call number: BPL MS 1613.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Medieval

Illumination of books and manuscripts

Digital images

Gothic scripts

Manuscripts, German

Bible. New Testament

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444736

IIIF Manifest:

https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/3r076q794/manifest

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library