Boston Public Library, MS q Med.284

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS3530

Shelfmark:

MS q Med.284

Title:

Prefacio in itinerar[iu]m, seu, Peregrinat[i]o[ne]m B[ea]te Virginis [et] Dei genetricis Marie.

Place:

Austria]

Austria TGN

Date:

between 1487 and 1499?

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 20] leaves : paper ; 214 x 140 (170 x 100) mm bound to 22 cm

Former Owner(s):

Lyell, James P. R. 1871-1948

James Lyell WIKIDATA

Enluminures (Firm)

Enluminures WIKIDATA

Libreria la Bibliofila (Firm : Milan)

Libreria la Bibliofila WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms codex.
In Latin.
Title from rubric on fol.1; date posited by relationship with the ca. 1487 edition printed at Ulm by Johann Reger and based on watermark evidence; place of creation conjectured by watermark evidence and paleographical analysis.
Collation: Paper, similar to Briquet 2450, fol. ii (modern paper) + 20 + ii (modern paper) ; i10 ii10 ; modern pencil foliation in upper-right margin of each recto.
Layout: Single column, 36-40 lines; frame-ruled in brown ink.
Script: Written in a gothic semihybrida libraria/currens.
Decoration: Red and blue maiblumen initials with penwork flourishing into the margins. Capitals touched in red.
Binding: Bound by Morrell of London in gold-tooled green goatskin.
Origin: Written in Austria[?] between 1487 and approximately 1499.
Provenance: Present just above the first line of text is a small monogram in brown ink and of indeterminate date, showing the letters "H.P." (or possibly "P.H."), wherein the letter "P" is joined to the upper half of the left ascender of the "H." Bookplates of James R. P. Lyell (1871-1948) and of Libreria la Bibliofila, Milan. Offered by Christie's online (July 9, 2020, lot 17); thereafter to...
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased from Les Enluminures, Chicago (TM 1140) on October 15, 2021.
Call number: MS q Med.284.

Keyword:

Gothic scripts

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Manuscripts, Medieval

Inscriptions

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444897

IIIF Manifest:

https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/6q1856972/manifest

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library