Boston Public Library, MS q Med.2

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DS ID:

DS3493

Shelfmark:

MS q Med.2

Title:

Bible : Old and New Testament : in Latin].

Place:

France]

France TGN

Date:

ca. 1250

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

In Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 438 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 167 x 130 (117 x 109) mm bound to 18 cm

Former Owner(s):

Cuthbert, John M

John M Cuthbert WIKIDATA

Tomlinson, Robert

Note:

Ms. codex.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Secundo folio: ... edisserunt aliit ...
Collation: Parchment, fol. iii (paper) + 438 + iii (paper) ; 1-212 3-616 718 8-916 1014 11-1216 1318 14-1916 2020 2116 2218 23-2516 2624 2722−8 (lacking eight leaves at end) ; catchwords in lower right corner final verso of each quire, set off by red paragraph mark. Modern pencil arabic foliation, upper outer corner of each page.
Layout: 2 columns, 52 lines. Bounding and writing lines in light plummet.
Script: Written in an early gothic bookhand in black ink with red rubrics (ten lines measure 23 mm)
Decoration: Chapter numbers in epigraphic capitals alternating red and blue letters. Full-length "I" in outer margin of fol. 3v in seven compartments for the Seven Days of Creation, in colors; prologues and capitulae begin with 6-line puzzle initials in red and blue with red and blue filigree; 4-line initial on fol. 1r, a monk reading, in colors with bar down outer margin; books begin with 3...
Binding: 17th-century calf over pasteboard, rebacked with original leather laid-on. Edges red, spine in compartments, gilt black leather label reads "BIBLIA LATINA/ MS SAEC XIII"
Origin: Written in France (possibly Paris) in the mid-thirteenth century; the Prologues are the standard Parisian group.
Provenance: 17th-century inscription, "Lamentable complayning," fol. 280v. Signature of Robert Tomlinson, Christ College (Edinburgh?) on front flyleaf, partially illegible. Bookplate of "John M. Cuthbert, Bedford" on front flyleaf.
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased from Pierce in 1901, (BPL bookplate inside front cover, embossed stamp on fol. 1, conservation department stamps on inner back cover dated 4/24/1930).
Call number: MS q Med.2.
Former call number: MS G.402.12.
Bibliography: Zoltan Haraszti, "Medieval Manuscripts in The Library," More Books III (1928): 57 (this description tipped onto front flyleaf).

Keyword:

Bookplates

Manuscripts, Medieval

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Marginalia

Inscriptions

Embossed stamps

Illumination of books and manuscripts

Gothic scripts

Bible

Autographs

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444852

IIIF Manifest:

https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/w9507v36s/manifest

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library