Boston Public Library, MS q Med.129

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS3466

Shelfmark:

MS q Med.129

Title:

Hours of the Passion : in verse : in French].

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

France]

France TGN

Date:

between 1465 and 1475

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

fre

French WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 23 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 210 x 150 (106 x 81) mm

Note:

Ms. codex.
In French.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Secundo folio: Regarde pecheur / Comment ton seigneur ...
Collation: Parchment, fol. 23 ; 1-28 36+1 (fol. 17 is a singleton) ; modern pencil foliation in arabic numerals.
Layout: One column, twelve lines (two six-line stanzas per page, with 18 mm between). Bounding lines red plummet, full-length to all sides, initial column doubled, writing lines red plummet.
Script: Written in a bâtarde script in brown ink.
Decoration: Half-page grisaille miniature at the beginning of each hour, seven in all, the first signed "A.F." (Anthonin Fieret?). Each Hour begins with a two-line initial (seven in all). The first is blue with white filigree on gold with infill in colors, full margin of scrolling acanthus with flowers and gold berries. The other six are gold with mauve infill on blue background or with blue...
Binding: In modern, limp vellum preservation binding housed in a tan cloth box with the previous binding of French red morocco by Ch[arles] De Samblanx, 1921 (signed and dated on inner front turn-in), black embossed and tooled front and back central panel of trinity (Father enthroned in central medallion, Son and Holy Ghost above and below in smaller medallions), spine tooled in compartments...
Origin: Written in Northern France between 1465 and 1475.
Provenance: Acquired by Boston Public Library in 1954 (see acquisition note in lower margin on fol. 1: "Josiah H. Benton Fund/ April 1 1954/ 033"), from Maggs (cat. 812, 1953, n. 17; SDBM 19354).
Call number: MS q Med.129.
Former call number: MS 1551.
Bibliography: Jeffrey Hamburger, et al., eds. Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections. (Chestnut Hill: McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2016), no. 137; More Books/BPL Quarterly VII (1955): 77-78; N. Crossley-Holland, "A Fifteenth-Century Franciscan French office: translation and commentary of the Hours of Passion," Medieval Studies, 4, (Lewiston, 1991).

Keyword:

Manuscripts, French

Manuscripts, Medieval

Illumination of books and manuscripts

Gothic scripts

Signed bindings

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444802

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archivelab.org/iiif/lapassiondenotre00fier/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library