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Metadata

DS ID:

DS3470

Shelfmark:

MS q Med.135

Title:

Dominical processional

Processional

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

Bologna?

Bologna TGN

Date:

between 1350-1399

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment, ill.

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 113 leaves, parchment, ill. ; 157 x 120 (110 x 80) mm

Former Owner(s):

Maggs Bros

Maggs Bros Ltd WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
In Latin.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis and on entry 151 in the Beyond Words catalog (Patricia DeLeeuw).
Secundo folio: ... reptium faciem domini ...
Collation: Parchment, fol. i + 113 + i ; 12 (two tipped-in singletons), 2-612 712−2 (lacking outermost bifolium, i.e. the leaves before fol. 63 after fol. 72) 812−1 1 (lacking one leaf before fol. 84), 912 1010 118−1 (this quire a slightly later addition, final leaf cancelled) ; catchwords preserved in lower center margin of final versoes of some quires. Modern arabic pencil foliation, upper...
Layout: Single column, 5 staves of music or 15 text lines. Bounding lines in light plummet. Square Gregorian notation on a four-line staff, c-clef indicated, staves in red, notes in black, some stems, red measure lines added later.
Script: Written in a southern gothic textualis formata in black ink with red rubrics.
Decoration: Two- to three-line initials throughout in red with blue filigree or vice versa; one-staff high initial in colors in foloriate style on fol. 64v (first responsory of the Office of the Dead). 19 two-staff or five- to six-line miniatures with small inset initials in gold and colors, and one half-page miniature (fol. 106v, spuriously attributed by Maggs and later by Faye and Bond to...
Binding: Ca. 17th-century Italian blind-stamped and tooled calf over bevelled boards, fillet turn-ins, round brass cornerpieces, spine in compartments, modern vellum pastedowns and conjugate flyleaves in front and back; stamps include YHS monogram and stylized cherub head.
Origin: Written in Northern Italy (possibly Bologna) in the second half of the 14th century. 16th-century additions throughout, e.g. 52v.
Provenance: Sold Sotheby's London 28 July 1902, lot 761 (collection of James Ward and Alexander Howell); Sotheby's London 15 December 1924, lot 519 to Stevens; Maggs cat. 542 (1930), no. 96; cat. 555 (1931), no. 8; cat. 14 (1939), no. 2; cat. 687 (1940), no. 232; and cat. 802 (1951), no. 4.
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased from Maggs in 1954.
Call number: MS q Med.135.
Former call number: BPL MS 1559.
Bibliography: Jeffrey Hamburger, et al., eds. Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections. (Chestnut Hill: McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2016): no. 151; More Books/BPL Quarterly VII (1955): 74.

Keyword:

Wooden boards

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Italy

Gothic scripts

Processionals (Service books)

Manuscripts, Medieval

illuminations (paintings)

Massachusetts--Boston

Institutional Record:

https://bpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C8444806

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Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library