Boston Public Library, MS pb Med.271

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS3436

Shelfmark:

MS pb Med.271

Title:

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

Place:

Germany]

Germany TGN

Date:

ca. 1450

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 leaf : parchment ; 445 x 313 (304 x 198) mm

Former Owner(s):

Ege, Otto F

Otto Ege WIKIDATA

Gourley, William Boyle, 1856-1935

William Boyle Gourley WIKIDATA

Abbe, Dorothy

Dorothy Abbe WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. leaf.
In Latin.
Title devised by cataloger.
Script: Northern textualis.
Layout: 2 columns, 48 lines. Bounding and writing lines in brown ink, vertical bounding lines full-length.
Decoration: Two-line chapter initials in alternating blue letters with red pen flourishing and red letters with blue or black pen flourishing; each verse begins with the first letter faintly illuminated.
Binding: Housed in an oversize folder.
Origin: Written in Germany in the mid-fifteenth century. Originally from a three-volume Bible (see provenance note)
Provenance: With early corrections and marginalia. The complete Bible owned by William B. Gourley of Paterson, New Jersey (his sale in New York, 4 November, 1936, lot 73, to Otto F. Ege). See Scott Gwara, Otto Ege's Manuscripts, 2013, Handlist 150.
Immediate source of acquisition: Acquired by BPL in 2000 from Dorothy Abbe.
Call number: MS pb Med.271.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Marginalia

Manuscripts, Medieval

Illumination of books and manuscripts

Digital images

Bible

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444772

IIIF Manifest:

https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/nc581c82z/manifest

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library