Boston Public Library, MS q Med.275

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS3523

Shelfmark:

MS q Med.275

Title:

14 leaves from a mid-13th-century Bible : in Latin].

Artist:

Dominican Painter, active 13th century

Dominican Painter, active 13th century WIKIDATA

Place:

Paris]

Paris TGN

Date:

between 1250 and 1260?

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 14 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 232 x 158 (167 x 108) mm bound to 24 cm

Former Owner(s):

Gruel, Léon, 1841-1923

Léon Gruel WIKIDATA

Gruel, Paul, 1864-1954

Paul Gruel WIKIDATA

Beatty, Alfred Chester, Sir, 1875-1968

Alfred Chester Beatty WIKIDATA

Thomas, Alan G

Alan G. Thomas WIKIDATA

Ede, Charles

Charles Ede WIKIDATA

Stilwell, Brian Douglas

Brian Douglas Stilwell WIKIDATA

Scholz, Wolfgang G., 1927-2015

Wolfgang G. Scholz WIKIDATA

William H. Allen, Bookseller

W. H. Allen & Co. WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. gathering.
In Latin.
Title devised by cataloger; date of production based on Branner.
Collation: Parchment, fol. ii (modern paper) + 14 + ii (modern paper) ; possibly 114 (oversewing prevents detailed inspection of structure) ; modern arabic foliation (498-511) in upper right margins; later refoliated 136-149.
Layout: 2 columns, 51 lines. Ruled in plummet.
Script: Written in a gothic bookhand in brown ink with red rubrics. Errors corrected by scraping away text or extending lines into the margins; where corrections extend into margins, extra ruling is added and red pen-flourishes surround the text.
Decoration: 32 illuminated initials of varying sizes, in colors with burnished gold, many with vertical bar borders extending into the margins. Small initials at the beginning of each chapter, larger initials at the beginning of prologues. Illuminated initial 'P' in place of 'N' in the Acts prologue (thus "[P]on ita est ordo"). Two historiated initials: ten-line 'P' at the beginning of Acts...
Binding: Bound in modern blue goatskin and housed in a blue cloth slipcase.
Origin: Written in France between approximately 1250 and 1260. Illuminations sometimes attributed to the the artist who Robert Branner calls "The Dominican Painter" (see, for example, H.P. Kraus catalog 188, no. 8).
Provenance: The present fragment originally formed part of a 549-leaf Bible, which, according to Sotheby's (3 December, 1968, lot 14), might once have been owned by John Boykett Jarman, of London, whose collection was damaged by flood in 1846. Peter Kidd notes that Ludwig Rosenthal Catalogue 135 (1910), no. 300, describes a substantially similar bible: "Biblia Latina. Manuscrit de la fin du 13...
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased from the sale of the Scholz collection (Skinner Inc., Boston, 23 July, 2019, lot 2)
Call number: MS q Med.275.
Bibliography: A Loan Collection of Western Illuminated Manuscripts from the Library of Sir Chester Beatty, Exhibited in the Library of Trinity College Dublin, 1955. Dublin: Friends of the Library, 1955. 10; Branner, Robert. Manuscript Painting in Paris during the time of Saint Louis: a Study of Styles. Berkeley: UCLA Press, 1977. 118-122; H.P. Kraus. Catalogue 188: One Hundred Distinguished...

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Medieval

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Illumination of books and manuscripts

Digital images

Bible

Gothic scripts

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444890

IIIF Manifest:

https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/5t34tr51v/manifest

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library