Boston Public Library, MS pb Med.243

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS3432

Shelfmark:

MS pb Med.243

Title:

Single leaf from a 15th-century missal : in Latin].

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy]

Italy TGN

Date:

ca. 1450

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 leaf : parchment, ill. ; 331 x 240 (212 x 70,15,70) mm

Former Owner(s):

Bruce P. Ferrini (Firm)

Bruce P. Ferrini WIKIDATA

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: 2 columns, 31 lines. Bounding and writing lines in brown plummet, bounding lines full-length.
Decoration: On the recto, a seven-line initial [D] historiated with a portrait of St. Andrew standing holding a crucifix and a book, with three-quarter foliate border in pastel palette with gold leaves and balls; two-line initials throughout in blue or red with red penwork.
Binding: Housed in an oversize folder.
Origin: Written in Italy in the mid-fifteenth century
Immediate source of acquisition: Acquired in 1987 from Bruce Ferrini.
Call number: MS pb. Med.243.
Former call number: BPL MS 2060 pb.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Illumination of books and manuscripts

Manuscripts, Medieval

Digital images

Missals (Service books)

Gothic scripts

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444768

IIIF Manifest:

https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/3r076r43z/manifest

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library