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: 2- to 3-line gold capitals on red and blue with white filigree highlighting throughout, followed by incipits in gold-leaf epigraphic capitals; four 4-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 writing at a... 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 (SDBM 57063). Formerly BPL MS 1550. 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.
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