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Metadata

DS ID:

DS3474

Shelfmark:

MS q Med.139

Title:

Book of hours; use of Sarum : in Latin

Book of hours

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

London?

London TGN

Date:

ca. 1450

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment, ill.

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 115 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 233 x 162 (154 x 97) mm bound to 25 cm, in box 18 cm

Former Owner(s):

Frost, H. Harvey

Henry Harvey Frost WIKIDATA

Laing, Guilelmus

Guilelmus Laing WIKIDATA

Chesterfield, Edwyn Francis Scudamore-Stanhope, 10th Earl of, 1854-1933

Edwyn Scudamore-Stanhope, 10th Earl of Chesterfield WIKIDATA

Maggs Bros

Maggs Bros Ltd WIKIDATA

Bernard Quaritch (Firm)

Bernard Quaritch Ltd WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
In Latin.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Collation: Parchment, fol. iii + 115 + iii ; 16 2-148 154−1 (final leaf cancelled). The text block of folio 74 has been cut out and restored, pasted into a replacement, blank, border, presumably at a relatively late date, since the worm holes on fol. 73 and 75 do not appear in folio 74. In addition, a seventeenth-century hand has written signes-de-renvoi on fol. 73v ("A") and 75 ("B...
Layout: Single column, 22 lines. Bounding and writing lines in red plummet, top and bottom writing lines extend across the width of the page.
Script: Written in a gothic textualis formata, with two-compartment "a." Written in black ink with red rubrics.
Decoration: One-line versal initials throughout alternating blue with red filigree or gold with blue; 2- to 3-line initials throughout in gold on blue and salmon with white filigree highlights and thin, spindly sprays into margin; 3-line initial in colors on gold with 1/4 floriate border in typical English style and color scheme on fol. 45v; 8-line initials with 3/4 border in similar scheme at...
Binding: 19th-century elaborately blind-tooled brown calf over heavily bevelled boards, resulting in raised squared corners, elaborately tooled board edges and turn-ins, all edges gilt, heavy green paper pastedowns and first/last flyleaves, other flyleaves early paper, spine gilt-stamped "Horae/ Ad usum/ sarum". Housed in brown cloth clamshell box "Horae/ Sarum use" and "MS q. Med. 139" gilt...
Origin: Written in England, possibly London, in the mid-15th century; calendar is Sarum use, Thomas of Canterbury has not been expunged.
Provenance: Late 15th-century signature of Guilelmus Laing on fol. 6v (Guilielmus Layng) and 55 (Guilielm[us] Layng e[est] possessor huius libri); later owned by Edwin Francis, 10th Earl of Chesterfield, his sale Sotheby's London 8 April 1919, lot 578 (Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts; offered by Quaritch in 1931 (1931 catalogue, no. 58) and again in 1945 (cat. 629, no. 10); Bookplate of H...
Immediate source of acquisition: Sold by Maggs to the BPL in 1956 (1956 catalogue, number 139)
Call number: MS q Med.139.
Former call number: MS 1563.
Bibliography: BPL Quarterly IX (1957): 61.

Keyword:

Autographs

Gothic scripts

Manuscripts, Medieval

England

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

devotional calendars

illuminations (paintings)

Books of hours

Massachusetts--Boston

Institutional Record:

https://bpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C8444810

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Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library