Ms. codex. In Latin. Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis and on Gregory T. Clark's entry in the 2016 Beyond words catalog (no. 118). Collation: Parchment, fol. ii (parchment) + 210 + ii (parchment) ; too tightly bound to collate and there are no signatures or catchwords ; modern arabic pencil foliation, upper right corner of each recto. Layout: One column, 17 lines. Bounding and writing lines in light red plummet or blind. Script: Written in a bâtarde script in black ink with red rubrics. Decoration: One- to four-line grisaille initials throughout with white filigree highlighting, on black with gold filigree highlighting; 32 seven-line miniatures or historiated initials in grisaille with blue, red and olive, and three full-page miniatures in gold and colors. Consult description by Lisa Fagin Davis for full listing of miniatures and initials; consult exhibition description by Gregory T. Clark for further information regarding origin. Binding: 19th-century sheepskin, with early central panels laid into both covers containing text stamped around central floral panel panel reading "Ora pro nobis sancta/ dei genetrix ut/ digni efficiamur promi/ssionibus christi"; later clasps, burns from original clasp nails on first and last five leaves; all edges gilt. Housed in modern half-green calf over pale grey canvas clamshell case... Origin: Written in the Netherlands (Ghent?), ca. 1470, with miniatures in a semi-grisaille style attributed by Gregory T. Calrk to a follower of the Master of the Moral Treatises. Provenance: Ex libris inscription of the Jesuits of Louvain dated 1643, fol. 3; number "29" inscribed in a ca, 18th-century hand on fol. 210v; later owned by Commander E.P.FOL. Cooper, his sale Sotheby's London, 7 Dec. 1953, lot 50. BPL plate inside front cover. Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased by BPL in 1955 from Maggs. Call number: MS q Med.137. Former call number: MS 1561. Bibliography: BPL Quarterly IX (1957): 62; Jeffrey Hamburger, et al., eds. Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections. (Chestnut Hill: McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2016), no. 118.
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