Boston Public Library, MS q Med.126

Metadata

DS ID:

DS3463

Shelfmark:

MS q Med.126

Title:

Cynthia, seu, Elegarium libri tres].

Author:

Aldegati, Marcantonio, active 14th century

Marcantonio Aldegati WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy]

Italy TGN

Date:

between 1476 and 1483].

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 52 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 240 x 175 (140 x 95) mm

Former Owner(s):

Gonzaga, Francesco, 1444-1483

Francesco Gonzaga WIKIDATA

Sneyd, Walter, 1809-1888

Walter Sneyd WIKIDATA

Schab, William H

William H. Schab WIKIDATA

Art ancien S.A

Art ancien S.A. WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
In Latin.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Secundo folio: MARCI ANTONII ALDEGATI...
Collation: Parchment, fol. iii (first two later paper, third (former pastedown) and fourth contemporary parchment) + 51 + ii (later paper) ; i2 1-510 ; vertical catchwords in lower right corner, final verso of each quire. Modern pencil arabic foliation, upper outer corner each page, beginning on i2, thus reaching 51.
Layout: Single column, 22 lines. Bounding and writing lines ruled in blind.
Script: Written in a humanistic bookhand in brown ink with original red rubrics.
Decoration: fol. 2: full-page border of blue tight interlace on gold background surrounding a blue-interlace Q on gold background, text incipit above and to the right in gold on salmon; 4-line blue initial, fol. 4v; 7-line interlace in color(s) with white filigree on gold leaf background throughout, 30 in all. Gold leaf quite thick, with some gesso bleeding through.
Binding: 18th-century vellum over pasteboard, gilt-stamped red leather label on spine, "M. Aldegat./ Mant./ Carmina Latina/ Cod. M."
Origin: Possibly written in Ravenna.
Provenance: With colored endpapers used for Matteo Luigi Canonici. Unidentified inscription (Matteo Luigi?) on f. 1v. Rev. Walter Sneyd (his sale at Sotheby's, 16 December 1903, lot 20) (SDBM 8830); L'Art Ancien (cat. 37, no. 1) (SDBM 10379). "Josiah H. Benton Fd / Nov 22, 1954 / 009" written in pencil on fly leaf opposite fol. 1.
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased in 1954 from W. H. Schab (cat. 20, no. 1, pl.) (SDBM 11672).
Call number: MS f Med.126.
Former call number: MS 1548.
Bibliography: Zoltán Haraszti, "Notable Purchases," BPLQ VII (1955): 76-77. Guglielmo Bottari, Marcantonio Aldegati, poeta latino del Quattrocento (Palermo, 1980), 20 (describing this manuscript).

Keyword:

Poetry

humanistic scripts

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Inscriptions

Marginalia

Illumination of books and manuscripts

Vellum bindings

Manuscripts, Medieval

Elegiac poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444799

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library