Boston Public Library, MS pb Med.226

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS3421

Shelfmark:

MS pb Med.226

Title:

Single leaf from a late 15th-century book of hours : in Latin].

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy]

Italy TGN

Date:

between 1475 and 1500

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 leaf : parchment ; 193 x 142 (94 x 67) mm

Note:

Ms. leaf.
Title devised by cataloger.
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.
Layout: Bounding and writing lines in light red ink, bounding lines doubled and full-length. Vertical catchword on verso.
Decoration: 1-line versals throughout mid-line alternating blue and pink with white on gold; Psalms begin with two-line initials in similar scheme.
Binding:Housed in an oversize manila folder.
Origin: Written in Italy in the late 15th century.
Provenance: Possibly from the same manuscript as MS q Med.267.
Immediate source of acquisition: Acquired by BPL ca. 1983, source unrecorded.
Call number: MS pb Med.226.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Illumination of books and manuscripts

Manuscripts, Medieval

Digital images

Books of hours

Gothic scripts

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444757

IIIF Manifest:

https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/3r076r20n/manifest

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library