Boston Public Library, MS q Med.164

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DS ID:

DS3483

Shelfmark:

MS q Med.164

Title:

Biblia pauperum].

Place:

Verona?]

Verona TGN

Date:

between 1425 and 1475?].

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 8 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 170 x 115 mm bound to 19 cm, in box 20 cm

Former Owner(s):

Weil, Ernst, 1891-1965

Ernst Weil WIKIDATA

Maggs Bros

Maggs Bros Ltd WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. leaves.
In Latin.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Script: Written in a Gothic cursive hand in black ink.
Secundo folio: [Legitur in] Genesii 3 quod dixit dominum serpenti ... / ... dimisit eos ab ire illeso.
Collation: Parchment (fragmentary), fol. 8 (single leaves, out of the presumably 20 original leaves). Ca. 19th-century black ink arabic foliation, lower left corner of each recto and upper right corner of each wax interleaf.
Layout: Three compartmentalized illustrations with accompanying text on each page.
Decoration: Three miniatures and two or four portraits on each page in ink and wash. Each page laid out according to a schema similar to that used in the early xylographic edition (see Henry), using thirteen elements: two Old Testament prefigurative (or antithetical) illustrations with corresponding captions, four Old Testament prophets with corresponding banderoles (only two prophets on fol...
Binding: Sewn into cardstock bifolium (19th-century), laid-in 19th-century brown calf over pasteboard, gilt-fillet border, paper pastedowns. Housed in a tan cloth box.
Origin: Written in Italy (Verona?), mid-15th century.
Provenance: Modern inscription, in Italian, cites a Biblia pauperum of 20 leaves, sold at the auction of the library of Giuseppe Alberto Martini in Lucerne, August, 1934; the present manuscript sold by Weil, cat. 22 (1954), lot 1 (SDBM 19474) and Sotheby's London, 8 July 1957, lot 67 (SDBM 4190; remnants of lot number label on front cover).
Immediate source of acquisition: Acquired by BPL from Maggs in 1957.
Call number: MS q Med.164.
Former call number: MS 1589.
Bibliography: Edith Wright, "Two Copies of the Biblia Pauperum," BPL Quarterly XI (1959): 3-15; Avril Henry, Biblia Pauperum: A Facsimile and Introduction (Ithaca, 1987) (with further bibliography); Nancy Netzer, ed., Secular/Sacred 11th-16th Century Works from the Boston Public Library and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston College, 2006), no. 31; Henrik Cornell, Biblia Pauperum...

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Manuscripts, Medieval

Digital images

Gothic scripts

Bible

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444827

IIIF Manifest:

https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/nc581c53h/manifest

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library