Boston Public Library, MS pb Med.98

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS3443

Shelfmark:

MS pb Med.98

Title:

Single leaf from Les fais et les dis des Romains et de autres gens :

Author:

Valerius Maximus

Valerius Maximus WIKIDATA

Place:

France]

France TGN

Date:

between ca. 1425 and 1450

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

fre

French WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 leaf : parchment, ill. ; 352 x 244 (250 x 193) mm

Former Owner(s):

R. Stora & Company

R. Stora and Company WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. Leaf.
Title devised by cataloger.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based primarily on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Script: Written in a bâtarde script in black ink with red rubrics.
Layout: 2 columns (85 mm each), 41 lines. Bounding and writing lines in blind.
Decoration: Four-line "puzzle" initial on recto in blue and white with foliate and gold infill on pale salmon with bar border with black tendrils and gold trefoil leaves along outer margin. 15-line miniature on recto in shades of blue, green and grey with gold sky, illustrating Romulus and Remus suckled by a wolf on the banks of a stream, with a shepherd in the background before a walled city.
Binding: Housed in an oversized manilla folder.
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased by the BPL from Raphael Stora in 1940.
Call number: MS pb Med.98.
Former call number: MS 1525.
Bibliography: Schullian, Dorothy M. "A Revised List of Manuscripts of Valerius Maximus" in Miscellanea Augusto Campana. Medioevo e Umanesimo 45 (1981), pp. 695-728, at p. 699.

Keyword:

Gothic scripts

Manuscripts, French

Manuscripts, Medieval

Digital images

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444779

IIIF Manifest:

https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/nc581517d/manifest

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library