Boston Public Library, MS q Med.281

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DS ID:

DS3528

Shelfmark:

MS q Med.281

Title:

Plurimo[rum] uerbo[rum] nominum ue[l?] differenti[ae] non inutiles & necessarie.

Author:

Pseudo-Cicero

Pseudo-Cicero WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy]

Italy TGN

Date:

October 1445

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 93 leaves : paper ; 152 x 105 (96 x 55) mm bound to 16 cm

Former Owner(s):

Enluminures (Firm)

Enluminures WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms codex.
In Latin.
Title from rubric on fol. 1v.
Collation: Paper, vertical chainlines with watermarks resembling Gravell dragon 24.1, 26.1, 32.1 ; i-vii12 viii12 (-10, 11, 12) ; vertical catchwords, quire signatures in roman numerals. Foliated in modern pencil in upper, outer margins.
Layout: Single column, 19 lines per page, bounding and writing lines scribed in blind. In second section ("Inter abundare") the first entry of each alphabetical sequence marked with a red capital letter in the adjacent margin, with small black guide letters remaining for each, some of which are trimmed away.
Script: Written in a humanist script in black ink with red rubrics, two-line initials in alternating red and blue.
Decoration: In second section, 19 three-line illuminated initials ("I" of "Inter" in first entry for each letter of the alphabet) on divided grounds of green and blue, with silver dots. On fol. 1v, a single four-line illuminated white vine initial "I" on a green, pink, and gold ground with silver dots, framed in blue.
Binding: Bound in modern brown goatskin tooled in blind. Early/contemporary title inscribed on lower edge of text block: "Nominum et verborum differentiae[?]" Parchment manuscript waste sewing guards in inner and outer folds of each quire.
Origin: Copied in October, 1445 by a scribe whose name is erased from the colophon (see contents note). Localizable to Northern Italy based on script, decoration, and watermark evidence.
Provenance: Title written in a later cursive hand on fol. 1 recto ("Differenae d verb 1445"). Occasional marginal notes and markings.
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased from Les Enluminures, Chicago, in September, 2020.
Call number: MS q Med.281.
Bibliography: Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts (SDBM) 260559; G. Brugnoli, Studi sulle differentiae verborum (Rome, 1955), 31, 41-43.

Keyword:

humanistic scripts

Edge titles

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Manuscript waste

illuminations (paintings)

Manuscripts, Medieval

Latin language--Synonyms and antonyms

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444895

IIIF Manifest:

https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/gx41q467q/manifest

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library