Boston Public Library, MS q Med.139
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS3474
- Shelfmark:
- MS q Med.139
- Title:
- Book of hours; use of Sarum : in Latin
- Catholic Church
- Place:
- London?
- Date:
- ca. 1450
- Language:
- lat
- Material:
- parchment, ill.
- 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
Laing, Guilelmus
Chesterfield, Edwyn Francis Scudamore-Stanhope, 10th Earl of, 1854-1933
Maggs Bros
Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
- 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:
- Institutional Record:
- https://bpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C8444810
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/pg15hh39b/manifest
- Holding Institution:
