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Metadata

DS ID:

DS3465

Shelfmark:

MS q Med.128

Title:

Passionale; in Latin

Passional

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Artist:

Felice, Matteo, active 1467-1493

Matteo Felice WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

between 1475 and 1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment, ill.

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 79 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 137 x 97 (82 x 57) mm bound to 14 cm

Former Owner(s):

De Fouar, Beatrice

Beatrice de Fouar WIKIDATA

Leo S. Olschki (Firm)

Leo S. Olschki Editore WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
In Latin.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Secundo folio: ... per caput ipsius recumbentis ...
Collation: Parchment, fol. i (19th-century parchment) + 79 + i (19th-century parchment) ; 1-98 108−11, final leaf cancelled ; vertical catchwords, lower right corner of the last verso of each quire. Modern arabic pencil foliation, upper outer corner of each recto.
Layout: 1 column, 13 lines. Bounding and writing lines in blind or light plummet.
Script: Written in a humanistic bookhand in brown ink with red or blue rubrics.
Decoration: Two- to three-line gold capitals on red and blue with white filigree highlighting throughout, followed by incipits in gold-leaf epigraphic capitals; four four-line historiated initials in gold and colors with full white vine borders on gold and colors with marginal putti, animals and hunting scenes, attributed to Matteo Felice (fl. 1467-93; see Lattanzi): fol. 1: St. Matthew...
Binding: 19th-century green morocco, gilt double-fillet borders, spine with gilt-stamped florets in compartments, parchment pastedowns and conjugate flyleaves, edges speckled; housed in custom green woodblock printed paper slipcase, contemporary with binding, shelf number on paper label on front.
Origin: Written in Italy in the last quarter of the 15th century.
Provenance: Owned in the eighteenth century by one Beatrice de Fouar (her signature on 77v).
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased by BPL in 1954 from Olschki.
Call number: MS q Med.128.
Former call number: MS 1550.
Bibliography: Boston Public Library Quarterly VII (1955): 76; A. D. Lattanzi, "Di alcuni codici miniati attribuibili a Matteo Felice e bottega" in La Bibliofilia LXXV (1973): 1-43, see p. 39 and fig. 20.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Italy

Manuscripts, Medieval

humanistic scripts

illuminations (paintings)

Inscriptions

Massachusetts--Boston

Institutional Record:

https://bpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C8444801

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https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/9k423k473/manifest

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library