Boston Public Library, MS pb Med.93

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS3442

Shelfmark:

MS pb Med.93

Title:

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

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

France or Belgium]

France TGN

Date:

between ca. 1475 and 1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 item : parchment, ill. ; 62 x 68 mm

Former Owner(s):

R. Stora & Company

R. Stora and Company WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. Fragment.
In Latin.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Layout: one column, presumably of two. Writing lines in blind.
Decoration: Initial [A] historiated with a priest kneeling in front of a church with a flying buttress, holding the standing Christ-child towards the heavenly aperture above, in which God appears.
Binding: housed in a four-flap wrapper.
Origin: Written in France or Flanders in the third quarter of the fifteenth century.
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased by the BPL from Raphael Stora in 1940.
Call number: MS pb Med.93.
Former call number: MS 1520.
Bibliography: Boot, C. "Medieval Netherlandic Manuscripts in Libraries in the State of Massachusetts," in Archief- en bibliotheekwezen in Belgie 50 (1979), p. 367 (said to be a breviary).

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Medieval

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Illumination of books and manuscripts

Digital images

Missals (Service books)

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444778

IIIF Manifest:

https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/nc581514k/manifest

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library