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Metadata

DS ID:

DS3472

Shelfmark:

MS q Med.137

Title:

Book of hours; use of Rome : in Latin

Book of hours

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

Ghent?

Ghent TGN

Date:

ca. 1470

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment, ill.

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 210 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 107 x 75 (65 x 42) mm

Former Owner(s):

Cooper, E. P. F

E. P. F. Cooper WIKIDATA

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 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: Single column, 17 lines. Bounding and writing lines in light red plummet or blind.
Script: WWritten in a gothic cursiva formata (bastarda) 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 perhaps in Ghent, ca. 1470, with miniatures in a semi-grisaille style attributed by Gregory T. Clark 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.F. Cooper, his sale Sotheby's London, 7 Dec. 1953, lot 50. BPL plate inside front cover.
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased from Maggs in 1955.
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.

Keyword:

Catches

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Belgium

Blind tooled bindings

Gothic scripts

Clasps

Manuscripts, Medieval

Morocco bindings

devotional calendars

illuminations (paintings)

Inscriptions

Bevelled edge boards

Books of hours

Massachusetts--Boston

Institutional Record:

https://bpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C8444808

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Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library