Boston Public Library, MS q Med.200
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS3487
- Shelfmark:
- MS q Med.200
- Title:
- Book of hours : use of Rome : in Latin].
- Catholic Church
- Scribe:
- Sigismondi, Sigismondo de', -1525
- Artist:
- Boccardi, Giovanni di Giuliano, 1460-1529
- Place:
- Carpi
- Date:
- 1498.
- Language:
- lat
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 237 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 113 x 78 (60 x 35) mm bound to 12 cm in box 14 cm
- Former Owner(s):
- Gage, Thomas
Crawford, William Horatio, 1815?-1888
Hoe, Robert, 1839-1909
Busch, Rudolf
Sigmundt, Eduard von
Feisenberger, H.A
Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962
Eisemann, Heinrich
Forti, Vittorio
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
In Latin.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Secundo folio: Februarius habet dies xxviii.
Collation: Parchment, fol. iv + 237 + ii ; 112 210+1 3-1110 1210+1 13-2010 2112+1 2210+1 2310−1 (full-page miniatures at fol. 13, 116, 205 and 218 are tipped-in singletons; last leaf cancelled) ; vertical catchwords, lower right corner of the last verso of each quire. Modern arabic pencil foliation, upper outer corner of each page, the final two leaves unnumbered.
Layout: One column, 13 lines. Bounding and writing lines in blind.
Script: Written in a humanistic bookhand in black ink with red rubrics.
Decoration (Primary): Four full-page miniatures facing historiated initials, with three additional pages with historiated initials, all with full borders of acanthus and flowers on gold with medallions of Roman emperors and Old Testament prophets and saints, all with text in gold on colors. Miniatures and initials attributed to Giovanni di Giuliano Boccardino. The annunciation (fol. 13v...
Decoration (secondary): One- to two-line gold initials throughout on red, blue, or green; most hours begin with four-line initials in gold on colors with sprays and acanthus into the margins.
Binding: Pink goatskin by Sydney Morris Cockerell, 1951 (monogram stamp and date on rear turn-in), title gilt on spine: "OFFICIUM/ B.V.M." and "CARPI/ SIGISMUNDUS/ DE/ SIGISMUNDIS/ 1498"; vellum pastedowns and conjugate flyleaves, gauffered edges. Formerly bound in blue velvet, then, when sold by Karl & Faber in 1951, bound in a leaf of a liturgical manuscript (see Cockerell notes, fol. ii...
Origin: Written in 1498 by the scribe Sigismundo de' Sigismondi of Carpi, his colophon on folio 148: "Expliciunt septem psalmi penitentiales in castro Carpi die xxii octobris Mcccclxxxxviiio per Sigismundum de Sigismondis de Carpo."; and on fol. 217v: "Explicit officium sanctis spiritus. Per me Sigismundum de Sigismundis in castro carpi 1498." The miniatures and borders were formerly...
Provenance: The Aldobrandini family arms on fol. 13v and 14 obscure two earlier coats of arms. Later owned by Sir Thomas Gage, his sale at Sotheby's, London, 25 June 1867, lot 273; offered by Quaritch in 1873 and 1880 (Cat. 332 (Nov. 1880), no. 821); W. H. Crawford of Lakelands, his sale at Sotheby's, London, March 1891, lot 2264; exhibited at The Grolier Club, 1892; Robert Hoe, see A...
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased by the BPL in Jan. 1959 from Vittorio Forti.
Call number: MS q Med.200.
Former call number: MS 1620.
Bibliography: J. Wardrop, "Signed Manuscripts in my Collection," in The Book Collector I, S. Cockerell, ed.(1952), 84-89; Albinia de la Mare, "New Research on Humanistic Scribes in Florence," in Miniatura fiorentina del Rinascimento, 1440-1525: un primo censimento, ed. Annarosa Garzelli (Florence: Giunta regionale toscana, 1985), 395-574 (see pp. 473-4); Christopher de Hamel, "The Medieval and... - Keyword:
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- https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444839
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/qb98q108g/manifest
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