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Metadata

DS ID:

DS3424

Shelfmark:

MS pb Med.232

Title:

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

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

France?]

France TGN

Date:

ca. 1470?

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment, ill.

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 leaf : parchment, ill. ; 195 x 142 (85 x 62) mm

Former Owner(s):

Bruce P. Ferrini (Firm)

Bruce P. Ferrini WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. leaf.
In French.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Layout: Single column, 13 lines, bounding and writing lines in red ink.
Script: Written in a gothic bookhand in brown ink with gold rubrics.
Decoration: Fully illuminated panel borders of flowers, acanthus, berries, birds, etc. Two illuminated roundels (1 each on recto and verso) depicting a man on his knees in prayer at the foot of a bed with his bride waiting for him, captioned "Ecuie Alexis"; and the bride alone in bed, captioned "lespousee." Historiated initial M of "Manus tue domine" showing two heads (the squire and his bride?).
Binding: Housed in an oversize folder.
Origin: Written in northern France, ca. 1470.
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased in Nov., 1988 from Ferrini.
Call number: MS pb Med.232.
Bibliography: Netzer, Nancy, ed. Secular Sacred: 11th-16th-Century Works from the Boston Public Library and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Chicago: University Press, 2006) no. 67.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, French

France

Manuscripts, Medieval

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Illumination of books and manuscripts

Digital images

Books of hours

Gothic scripts

Massachusetts--Boston

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444760

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Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library