Ms. codex. In Latin and Flemish. Title supplied by cataloger. Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis, Secundo folio: antoni monachus. Collation: Parchment, with eight paper leaves added at end (no visible watermarks), fol. i (later parchment) + 247 + i (later parchment) ; 112−1 (lacking one leaf after fol. 7) 210 3-610 712−1 (lacking one leaf after fol. 66) 8-1210 134−1 (one leaf cancelled after fol. 126) 14-2510 268 (this quire entirely of paper) ; catchwords in lower right corner, final verso of each quire. Modern arabic... Layout: 1 column, 18 lines. Bounding and writing lines in brown ink. Script: Written in a gothic bookhand in black ink. Decoration (primary): Psalms begin with three-line initials in salmon and blue, some historiated with kneeling figures, others with foliate infill on gold background; gold, salmon and blue bar borders with birds and grotesques, white filigree highlighting; line fillers in similar scheme with grotesque heads, fol. 13-14 only; fol. 15v and following, initials and borders less elaborate, line... Decoration (secondary): Twelve miniatures depicting the labors of the month, one on each calendar page (each month begins on the verso and ends on the facing recto, with the miniature in the lower margin of the recto). Lacking the month of June. Seven 8-line historiated initials with full bar border in blue, salmon and gold with white filigree highlighting, one at each Psalter division... Binding: 16th-century pigskin over boards, tooled and stamped, spine in compartments, split bands, bevelled boards, metal clasps (possibly later), modern vellum pastedowns and conjugate flyleaves in front and back. Preserved in a light olive cloth clamshell box with black lettering-pieces. Origin: Written in Flanders in the first half of the fourteenth century; eight lalter paper endleaves added, the first of which is numbered fol. 247 in a 15th-century hand, with contents to replace a lost leaf. Provenance: The calendar includes rubrics in Flemish and the Flemish saints Foca (5 March), Gaius (10 March), Quirinus (30 March), Balbinus (31 March), Eutropius (30 April), Remaclus of Trier (3 Sept., in red), Severinus of Trier (24 October, in red), and Hubert of Lüttich (3 Nov., in red). Early inscription mentioning St. Agnes, fol. 13. Fifteenth-century additions to the calendar of... Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased by BPL in 1954 from Maggs (cat. 816, 1953, no. 158) (Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts 52549). Call number: MS q Med.132. Former call number: MS 1555.
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