Ms. codex. In Latin. Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis; date based on Sticca and Manzari. Secundo folio: Februarius apud hebreos... Collation: Parchment, fol. ii (contemporary manuscript waste) + 100 + ii (contemporary manuscript waste) ; 1-312 412−1 58−4 610 7-912 104−1 (lacking one leaf after fol. 46, four leaves after fol. 51, and one leaf before fol. 100) ; decorative catchwords in black, lower center of final versos. Modern pencil foliation in arabic numerals, upper outer corner of most rectos (off by +1 after fol... Layout: 1 column, 11 lines. Bounding and writing lines in blind or light plummet. Script: Written in a gothic rotunda in black ink with red rubrics. Decoration (primary): Fifteen full-page miniatures: The Betrayal of Christ (fol. 18v) -- Christ captured (fol. 19) -- Christ before Annas (fol. 24v) -- Christ bound and led (fol. 25) -- Christ before Caiphas (fol. 26v) -- Christ blindfolded and beaten (fol. 27) -- Pilate enthroned (fol. 30v) -- Flagellation (fol. 31) -- Christ before Herod (fol. 34v) -- The Road to Calvary (fol. 35) --Christ... Decoration (secondary): One-line versal initials throughout alternating red and blue; 2-line initials throughout alternating blue with red and gold or red with blue/purple and gold; four- to six-line historiated initials in colors on gold followed by opening letters of text in gold on blue field, throughout, seventeen in all: Bearded saint (fol. 13) -- full-page historiated initial of Christ... Binding: Original blind-incised sheepskin over boards, rebacked, tawed strap intact, clasp lacking. Binding may have been reversed at the time of rebacking, as the current final flyleaf has an offset of the first folio but has been inverted, suggesting that the current back cover was originally the front. In addition, the clasp closes from the front to the back instead of the standard... Origin: Written in Camerino, Italy (in the Marches) ca. 1320-1330 (see Sticca, p. 144), and certainly before 1338, the date of an added calendar entry on 28 April. Manzari dates to the first decade of the 14th century. The calendar includes Camerino Saints Ansuinus (13 March) and Venatius (17 May). The calendar and the Office of the Dead also suggest Franciscan use. Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased by BPL in 1954 from William H. Schab (cat. 20, no. 8) (SDBM 11669). Call number: MS q Med.131. Former call number: MS 1554. Bibliography: Boston Public Library Quarterly VII (1955): 75; Sandro Sticca, "Officium Passionis Domini: An Unpublished Manuscript of the Fourteenth Century," Franciscan Studies XXXIV (1974): 144-199 and figs; Francesca Manzari, "Italian Books of Hours and Prayer Books in the Fourteenth Century," in Books of Hours Reconsidered, ed. Sandra Hindman (London: Harvey Miller, 2013), 158-159.
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