Boston Public Library, MS q Med.268

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS3519

Shelfmark:

MS q Med.268

Title:

Single leaf from a 15th-century breviary : in Latin].

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy?]

Italy TGN

Date:

ca. 1440?

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 leaf : parchment ; 182 x 132 (122 x 87) mm

Former Owner(s):

Abbe, Dorothy

Dorothy Abbe WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. leaf.
Title devised by cataloger.
Date from donor information.
Script: Written in Southern textualis.
Layout: 2 columns, 30 lines. Writing lines in hard point.
Decoration: Chapter initials in margins, more than two lines high, alternating red with purple pen flourishing and blue with red decoration.
Binding: Stored in a manila folder.
Waterstained with losses at bottom from mold, including some loss of text.
Origin: Written in Italy ca 1440?
Immediate source of acquisition: Received by BPL in 2000 from Dorothy Abbe.
Call number: MS q Med.268.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Medieval

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Breviaries

Digital images

Gothic scripts

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444886

IIIF Manifest:

https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/nc581c98v/manifest

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library