Boston Public Library, MS q Med.280

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS3527

Shelfmark:

MS q Med.280

Title:

Devotional prayers : in Italian].

Place:

Italy]

Italy TGN

Date:

1475-1499?

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ita

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 14 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 161 x 106 (approximately 119 x 84) mm

Former Owner(s):

Marcela, Gabriela, active 15th century

Marcela Gabriela WIKIDATA

Bochini, Alvise, active 17th century

Alvise Bochini WIKIDATA

Andrea S., active 17th century

Andrea S. WIKIDATA

Enluminures (Firm)

Enluminures WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms codex.
In Italian.
Title devised by cataloger; catalog record based in part on dealer's description.
Collation: Parchment, fol. i + 14 + i ; i8 ii6 ; modern pencil foliation in upper right margin of each recto, those numbers used here for reference.
Layout: Single column, 18 lines, ruled in brown ink.
Script: Written in a southern textualis in brown ink, rubrics and capital swashes in red.
Decoration: Medallion with a grinning skull in a starry landscape surrounded by gold bezants in the lower margin of fol. 2. Three two-line initials illuminated on red, blue, and green grounds, the first of which (fol. 2) is decorated with vines and bezants.
Binding: Bound in dark brown, ca. 16th-/17th-century goatskin panelled in blind, blind-stamped arabesque centerpieces, with gold-tooled leaves in each corner; holes from silk ties (no longer present) at each edge. Modern endpapers. Ca. 15th-century (Italian?) manuscript waste rear flyleaf.
Origin: Copied in Central Italy, circa 1475-1499, for a young young woman -- possibly the "Gabriela Marcela," whose erased name is still visible on fol. 1. The supplicant identifies herself as a girl, "filiola" (fol. 2, line 6), and all adjectives referring to the person praying use feminine forms. The language of the text is that used in Central Italy -- for example, the definite article "lo...
Provenance: The name "Gabriela Marcela" erased, but still visible on fol. 1. Later owned by one Alvise Bochini of Venice, who inscribed his name on fol. 1v "Aluise Bochini", and on fol. 1 (now nearly erased) "ALVISE BOCHINI VENEZIA 12 APRILE." Possibly identifiable as Alvise du Bois, member of a prominent Netherlandish trading family; resided in Venice from 1599 to 1638. The inscription...
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased from Les Enluminures, Paris, in June, 2020.
Call number: MS q Med.280.
Bibliography: Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts (SDBM) 260731

Keyword:

Inscriptions

illuminations (paintings)

Manuscript waste

Manuscripts, Medieval

Manuscripts, Italian

Gothic scripts

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444894

IIIF Manifest:

https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/3j335p27b/manifest

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library