Boston Public Library, MS q Med.233

Metadata

DS ID:

DS3496

Shelfmark:

MS q Med.233

Title:

Regla de la orden serafica de san francisco

Regla de la orden serafica de san francisco

Place:

Astorga, Spain

Astorga TGN

Spain TGN

Date:

1528].

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

In Spanish

Spanish WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 50 leaves : parchment ; 224 x 160 (155 x 105) mm bound to 23 cm, in box 25 cm

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title devised by cataloger.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based primarily on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Secundo folio: ...mo concessa...
Collation: Parchment, fol. 50 ; 1-58, 610 ; original signatures extant in quires 5 and 6, signed e and fol. Catchwords lower right corner of the final verso of most quires, in banderole border or decoratiove penwork border. Modern arabic pencil foliation, upper outer corner each page.
Layout: Single column, 24 lines lines. Bounding lines in blind, full-length.
Script: Written in a southern gothic textualis formata, with some Iberian influences, in brown ink with red rubrics.
Decoration: Nine-line initials on fol. 1v and 10v in red with brown infill and filigree; two-line initials in black penwork throughout.
Binding: Original vellum with wrap-around flap from back to front, later braided tie; vellum reused from earlier manuscript (faded and illegible); housed in a green clamshell case, BPL shelfmark on spine label.
Origin: Written in 1528 (see date inscribed on upper cover) at the convent of Santa Maria de Valle in Astorga, Spain.
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased from "Illuminations, Chicago" ca. 1990.
Call number: MS q Med.233.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Medieval

Spain

Gothic scripts

Manuscripts, Spanish

Third Order Regular of St. Francis

Massachusetts--Boston

Franciscans

Early works

Manuscripts

Institutional Record:

https://bpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C8444860

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library