Boston Public Library, MS q Med.263 no.1

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DS ID:

DS3515

Shelfmark:

MS q Med.263 no.1

Title:

Li statuti & ordini facti per la Confraternitate & consortio intitulato sancta Maria Rotunda in la ecclesia de sancto Giouane retulano de milano : confirmati per le bulle apostolice del tenore infrascripto.

Place:

Milan]

Milan TGN

Date:

not before 1520

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

ita

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 23 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 230 x 165 (170 x 117) mm

Former Owner(s):

Reed, Byron, 1829-1891

Byron Reed WIKIDATA

Biblioteca trivulziana

Biblioteca Trivulziana WIKIDATA

Omaha Public Library

Omaha Public Library WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
In Italian and Latin.
Title from incipit. Date and place of production based on contents.
Collation: Parchment, fol. ii (modern paper) + 23 + ii (modern paper) ; 1-38(-8, probably blank). Vertical catchwords in lower right margin of final versos in gatherings 1 and 2.
Layout: Single column, 26 lines per column. Bounding and writing lines ruled in blind.
Script: Written in brown ink in a humanistic bookhand.
Decoration: Eight-line initial on fol. 1r in shell gold on a dark blue ground, ornamented with pearls, white and orange flowers, and green and gold foliage, with an arabesque border in orange, green, blue and gold extending into the inner margin. Four- and two-line initials in red or blue.
Binding: Heavy paper wrappers with vellum spine and corners (modern construction?). Bound with a contemporary printed edition of the same text. Printed text cataloged separately under call number MS q Med.263 no. 2.
Origin: Written in Milan, not before 1520.
Provenance: Confraternity of Santa Maria Rotunda, Milan; unidentified early/contemporary marginal annotations, with early corrections throughout; used as printer's copy ca. 1520 (with casting-off marks); library of the Trivulzio family, Milan; no. 1160 in an unidentified collection (inscription on second front flyleaf verso. Trivulzio?); Geo. A. Leavitt & Co., Auctioneers, New York (Medieval...
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased from Bonhams (Fine books and manuscripts, Feb. 11, 2018, lot no. 23).
Call number: MS q Med.263 no.1.

Keyword:

humanistic scripts

Marginalia

Inscriptions

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Illumination of books and manuscripts

Manuscripts, Medieval

Digital images

Casting off

Manuscripts, Italian

Confraternities

Confraternitate Sancta Maria Rotunda (Confraternity : Milan, Italy)

Confraternities (Canon law)

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444882

IIIF Manifest:

https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/xd07mh71w/manifest

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library