Boston Public Library, MS pb Med.235
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS3425
- Shelfmark:
- MS pb Med.235
- Title:
- Single leaf from a 15th-century book of hours; in Dutch
- Catholic Church
- Place:
- Delft?
- Date:
- between 1450 and 1475
- Language:
- dut
- Material:
- parchment, ill.
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 1 leaf : parchment, ill. ; 180 x 127 (100 x 65) mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Alfen, Philip Joseph van, 1894-1969
Bruce P. Ferrini (Firm)
- Note:
- Ms. leaf.
Title devised by cataloger.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based in part on a description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Script: Written in a gothic bookhand in black ink.
Layout: Bounding and writing lines in brown plummet, bounding lines full-length.
Decoration: In the outer margin of the recto, a bird with a banderole reading "Si sellen mit mi wa[n]de/ren in witten clederen want siis w[er]dich siin""; in the outer margin of the verso, a bird with a banderole reading "Dat seker h[er]t is altoes blide."
Binding: Housed in an oversize manila folder.
Origin: Written in the Netherlands, probably Delft, in the third quarter of the 15th century. This leaf is quite similar in style and format to BPL MS q Med.86, and appears to be from the same workshop.
Provenance: Removed from a book of hours, formerly in the collection of Philip J. van Alfen (1894-1969). This manuscript was offered by Sotheby's, London, in 1972 (10 July, lot 72) and later by Christie's, London, in 1986 (25 June, lot 201) and was dismembered shortly after. Other leaves of the same manuscript are now in Atlanta, Pitts Theology Library, Emory University, RG 020-2; Cleveland...
Immediate source of acquisition: Acquired in 1992 from Bruce Ferrini.
Call number: MS pb Med.235.
Bibliography: N. van Wijk, Het getijdenboek van Geert Grote (Leiden, 1940). - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://bpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C8444761
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/3r076r294/manifest
- Holding Institution:
