Extent: 185 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 141 x 108 (90 x 68) mm bound to 15 cm
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Ms. codex. The manuscript is misbound, and the original order was as follows: fol. 1-62 (quires 1-8), fol. 120-169 (quires 16-21), fol. 63-119 (quires 9-15), fol. 170-185 (quires 22-23). In Flemish. Title devised by cataloger. Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis. Secundo folio: Februarius maent. Collation: Parchment, fol. 185 ; 1-26 38+1 4-68 78+1−1 810−1 98+1 108 118+1 128 138−1 148 158+1 168+1 178 188+1 19-218 228+1 238−1 ; the full-page miniatures at fol. 13, 48, 63, 82, 119, 122, 142 and 174 are tipped-in singletons. Single folios cancelled after fol. 52, 102, and 185. Lacking one folio after fol. 63, i.e. lacking the first text leaf of the Penitential Psalms ; modern pencil... Layout: 1 column, 19 lines. Bounding and writing lines in light brown ink or blind. Script: Written in a gothic bookhand in black ink with red rubrics. Decoration (primary): Full-page miniatures as follows: The Virgin and Child (fol. 13v, Matins, Hours of the Virgin) -- The Trinity (fol. 48v, Hours of the Holy Spirit) -- Christ in Judgment (fol. 63v, Penitential Psalms) -- Harrowing of Hell (fol. 82v, Office of the Dead) -- Mass of Saint Gregory (fol. 119v) -- God the Father holding the world in his right hand, gesturing in blessing with his... Decoration (secondary): Three-line initials throughout in blue filled with green and red with green and red filigree into margins; One- to two-line versal initials throughout in red and blue; four-line gold initials on salmon filled with blue or vice versa, with white filigree highlighting, at the incipit of each hour and the first lection of each Matins, with bars in gold in outer and lower... Binding: Early parchment over pasteboard, a leaf from a 15th-century choirbook (gradual or antiphonal), 4 staves, Gregorian square notation on a four-line red staff, preserving the responsory "Desiderium animae eius" for the commons of one martyr; tawed leather ties, blank vellum pastedowns. Origin: Written in Flanders in the second third of the fifteenth century. Provenance: Tenner 6 April 1955, lot 8 (Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts 19483); Hauswedell 9 May 1957 (cat. 73), lot 2 (SDBM 19684). Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased by BPL in 1957 from Internationaal Antiquariaat, Amsterdam (SDBM 57072). Call number: MS q Med.159. Former call number: MS 1584. Bibliography: N. van Wijk, Het getijdenboek van Geert Grote (Leiden, 1940); C. Boot, "Medieval Netherlandic Manuscripts in Libraries in the State of Massachusetts," Archief- en bibliotheekwezen in Belgie 50 (1979): 353-355, with additional textual details; Nancy Netzer, ed., Secular/Sacred 11th-16th Century Works from the Boston Public Library and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston...
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