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Metadata

DS ID:

DS3458

Shelfmark:

MS q Med.118

Title:

Rule of St. Clare; with commentaries and declarations by John of Capistrano and Nicholas of Cusa : in Italian and Latin

Rule of Saint Clare

Author:

Clare, of Assisi, Saint, 1194-1253

Clare of Assisi WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

between 1450 and 1500

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ita

Italian WIKIDATA

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment, paper

Parchment AAT

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 74 leaves : parchment, paper ; 178 x 130 (130 x 94) mm bound to 19 cm

Former Owner(s):

Marie, de Albano

Marie de Albano WIKIDATA

Marie Cleophe, de Sollario

Marie Cleophe de Sollario WIKIDATA

Martini, J

J. Martini WIKIDATA

Griscom, Acton

Acton Griscom WIKIDATA

Gottschalk, Paul, 1880-

Paul Gottschalk WIKIDATA

Lathrop C. Harper, Inc

Lathrop C. Harper, Inc. WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
In Italian and Latin.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based primarily on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Secundo folio: ...obedientia a Beato Francisco.
Collation: Parchment (fol. 1-56) and paper (fol. 57-74), fol. iii (paper) + 74 + iii (paper) ; 1-210 34+1 (fol. 25 tipped-in) 410 5-66 76+3 (fol. 54-56 singletons) 810 98 ; decorative catchwords, lower center or lower right corner of the final verso of most quires. Modern pencil arabic foliation, upper outer recto of each leaf.
Layout: 2 columns, 34 lines. Bounding and writing lines in blind or light plummet.
Script: Written in a southern textualis formata in black ink with red rubrics.
Decoration: 1- to 3-line red capitals throughout.
Binding: 16th-century(?) limp vellum, title handwritten on spine: "Regole del/le monache/ di / s. chiara" and "Cod. [ ]/ saec. [ ]"; paper pastedowns and flyleaves.
Origin: Written in Northern Italy in the second half of the fifteenth century for the use of a community of Poor Clares.
Provenance: 17th-century inscription, fol. 1: "De usum sororis Marie de Albano et sororis Marie Cleophe de Sollario." Acquired by Acton Griscom (High Point, NJ) "from J. Martini through L. C. Harper", his no. 27 (see de Ricci, Census I:1166).
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased from Paul Gottschalk in 1938
Call number: MS q Med.118.
Former call number: FR.96.C54.
Bibliography: More Books/BPL Quarterly XV (1940): 406-7.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Italy

Gothic scripts

Manuscripts, Medieval

Inscriptions

Manuscripts, Italian

Massachusetts--Boston

Poor Clares

Early works

Institutional Record:

https://bpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C8444794

IIIF Manifest:

https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/jd477294n/manifest

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library