Boston Public Library, MS pb Med.35
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS3441
- Shelfmark:
- MS pb Med.35
- Title:
- Rosarium psalter : in Spanish].
- Catholic Church
- Artist:
- Bening, Simon, 1483 or 1484-1561
- Place:
- Bruges?]
- Date:
- ca. 1525
- Language:
- spa
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 14 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 90-100 x 70-80 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Juana, la Loca, Queen of Castile, 1479-1555
- Note:
- Ms. leaves.
In Spanish.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Script: Written in a rounded gothic bookhand in black ink with red rubrics.
Decoration: One- and two-line initials throughout in gold ink on red and/or blue with gold filigree highlighting. Text pages with full trompe-l'oeuil borders of flowers, plants, birds and animals on gold. Full-page illuminations in gold and colors within tracery frames.
Immediate source of acquisition: Numbers 1-4, 6-8, and 10-14 were given to BPL in April 1917 by Mrs. Joseph Georges (Harriet) Cupples (Schoenberg Database 42804 and 198005). The bibliography up to 1981, including the Census, cites only these twelve. The Agony in the Garden (no. 5) and the Crucifixion (no. 9) were acquired by BPL from Christie's New York, 22 May 1981, lot 12 (BPL acquisition...
Bibliography: Arnould, A. and J.M. Massing. Splendours of Flanders (exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 1993); Dominguez Rodriguez, A. and P. Treviño Gajardo. Rosario de Juana la Loca (Valencia, 2004); Gay, R. "Selected Scribe Biographies" in T. Kren and S. McKendrick, Illuminating the Renaissance: The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe (Los Angeles, 2003), pp...
Call number: MS pb Med.35.
Consult description by Lisa Fagin Davis for further information. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444777
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/z316sj53d/manifest
- Holding Institution:
