Boston Public Library, MS pb Med.188
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS3402
- Shelfmark:
- MS pb Med.188
- Title:
- Single leaf from a 15th-century book of hours : in Latin].
- Catholic Church
- Place:
- Vienne?]
- Date:
- between 1475 and 1499
- Language:
- lat
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 1 leaf : parchment, ill. ; 186 x 124 (110 x 70) mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Sandbergs Bokhandel, Stockholm
- Note:
- Ms. leaf.
Office of the Dead, Matins.
Title devised by cataloger.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Script: Written in a bâtarde script in black ink with red rubrics.
Layout: 1 column, 19 lines. Bounding and writing lines in light red ink.
Decoration: 1-line versals mid-line throughout in gold on red or blue with gold filigree highlighting; 4-line Psalm initial on recto in blue with white on gold background, floriate infill; 1/4 floriate border, outer margin verso, in gold ink and colors on blue; 1/2-page miniature on recto, Job on the dungheap: Job sits on the dungheap at right, wearing only a draped loincloth, with three...
Binding: Housed in a thick board folder with cutout mylar window, in an oversize manila folder.
Origin: Written in northern France in the late 15th century, possibly for the use of Vienne; the antiphon "Requiem eternam dona," when used as the first antiphon of Matins, suggests that use.
Immediate source of acquisition: Acquired in 1957 from Sandbergs Bokhandel, Stockholm.
Call number: MS pb Med.188.
Former call number: BPL MS 1614. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444737
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/3r076q858/manifest
- Holding Institution:
