Boston Public Library, MS pb Med.231
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS3423
- Shelfmark:
- MS pb Med.231
- Title:
- Single leaf from a 15th-century book of hours, use of Amiens (?) : in French].
- Catholic Church
- Place:
- France]
- Date:
- between 1450 and 1475
- Language:
- fre
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 1 leaf : parchment, ill. ; 173 x 125 (105 x 60) mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Bruce P. Ferrini (Firm)
- 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 bâtarde script.
Layout: 1 column, 17 lines. Bounding and writing lines in light plummet.
Decoration: Saints' names alternating red and blue, and gold letters for the golden-number (i.e. the first) column and the "red-letter" days. Outer border on both sides of scrolling acanthus, grotesques and spindly vines in gold and colors; two-line KL on recto in gold on red.
Binding: Housed in an oversize folder.
Origin: Written in northern France in the third quarter of the 15th century, possibly for the use of Amiens; although the calendar is primarily Parisian (with St. Charitine on 5 October and Dionysius in gold on 4 October, for example), it gives the Amiens date of 15 October for St. Wulfram, here called "Elfroy.
With 17th-century Arabic foliation in upper outer corner of the recto, numbering this leaf "17"; since this is the tenth leaf of the calendar, there must have been seven leaves preceding the calendar, perhaps blank flyleaves or added preliminary material.
Immediate source of acquisition: Acquired in 1988 from Bruce Ferrini.
Call number: MS pb Med.231. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444759
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/3r076r269/manifest
- Holding Institution:
