Extent: 24 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 210 x 154 (143 x 105) mm
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Ms. codex. In Latin. Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis and on entry 36 in the Beyond Words catalog, by Massimo Medica. Secundo folio: [blank]; fol. 3: Incipit prologus/ Johannes miseratione ... Collation: Parchment, fol. ii (parchment manuscript waste) + 24 + fol. ii (parchment manuscript waste) ; 12+1 (fol. 2, the full-page miniature, is a tipped-in singleton) 26 3-48 ; decorative catchwords, lower center margin final verso of each quire. Modern arabic pencil foliation, upper outer corner of each recto, skips fol. 23, so reaches "24" at fol. 25. Layout: Two columns, 24 lines. Bounding and writing lines in blind. Script: Written in a rounded gothic bookhand in brown ink with red rubrics. Decoration: Three-line chapter initials in red or blue with blue and red filigree throughout. Full-page illsutration of St. Clare, fol. 2v, with heavy, ca. 19th-century overpainting: St. Clare enthroned against a blue background sprinkled with golden stars; above, St. Francis as an angel flanked by two angels, bearing a crown presumably intended for Clare; kneeling at her feet on either side... Binding: Original blind-fillet calf over boards with early brass bosses, some floral tooling extant, lacking clasps, spine repaired. Origin: Written in Bologna, likely for an order of Urbanist Poor Clares, possibly with ties to Venice. See the Beyond oOrds catalog, no. 36. Provenance: Effaced ca. sixteenth-century inscription, fol. 25v. Sold at Sotheby's London 7 Feb. 1951, lot 274; catalogue description pasted inside front cover. Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased by the BPL in 1953 from Maggs (Maggs cat. 816, no. 155, with plate) Call number: MS q Med.123. Former call number: MS 1545. Bibliography: Jeffrey Hamburger, et al., eds. Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections. (Chestnut Hill: McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2016), no. 36; More Books/BPL Quarterly vol. VII (1955): 76.
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