Ms. codex. In Latin. Title devised by cataloger. Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis and by James H. Marrow's entry in the 2016 Beyond Words exhibition catalog (no. 123) Secundo folio: tissio[n] om[niu]m p[ecc]a[t]o[rum]. Collation: Parchment, fol. vii (parchment) + 240 ; too tightly bound to collate, but appears to be in quires of eight. Layout: One column, 22 lines; bounding and writing lines in light brown ink, bounding lines doubled and full-length. Script: Written in a gothic cursive in black ink with red rubrics. Decoration: Single- and two-line initials throughout in red or blue; three-line initials throughout in gold on blue and salmon, approximately 80 in all; 27 six-line initials in gold and colors with bar border along inner margin terminating in floral sprays; fol. 85: small inter-textual illustrations of the instruments of the passion; fifteen 7- to 15-line major initials in colors on gold with... Binding: Brown calf; lower cover original, central floral panel with surrounding text reading "De profundis clarnavi ad te domini"; upper cover slightly later, plain brown calf; spine rebacked with modern pale brown leather; bronze clasps, catches and inner edge-pieces, probably contemporary with upper cover (i.e. not original, but not modern); vellum pastedowns at front and back. Origin: Written in the Netherlands ca. 1450. Provenance: Ca. 16th-century signature of "Dominus Laurentius Van der Torqel : relig[iosus] Wierb [...]" on fol. ii; fol. ii verso-iii verso: pen trials and Dutch notes, repeating the name of the first owner Henricus Erpensis, notes dated 1593 on fol. iii verso; fol. v: 17th-century signature of Francis Gibson. Fol. iv: signature of Muriel Agnes Fry, "from her father/ 1921"; sold with her... Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased by BPL in 1957 from Maggs Brothers (cat. 838 (1956), nr. 45). Call number: MS q Med.162. Former call number: MS 1587. Bibliography: Jeffrey Hamburger, et al., eds. Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections. (Chestnut Hill: McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2016), no. 123; E. Wright, "A Medieval Manuscript of Philomena: Versions by John of Hoveden and John Peckham," BPL Quarterly, X (1958) 188-195; Ulysee Chevalier, Repertorium Hymnologicum: Catalogue des Chants, Hymnes, Proses...
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