Boston Public Library, MS q Med.40
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS3540
- Shelfmark:
- MS q Med.40
- Title:
- Franciscan miscellany : in Latin with some Italian].
- Jacopone, da Todi, 1230-1306
- Place:
- Venice?]
- Date:
- ca. 1490
- Language:
- In Latin and Italian
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 156 leaves : parchment and paper, ill. ; 153 x 110 (writing space varies, approx. 120 x 80) mm bound to 17 cm
- Former Owner(s):
- Sabatier, Paul, 1858-1928
Ludwig Rosenthal's Antiquariat
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Secundo folio: ... debus ecce omnis...
Collation: A mix of paper and parchment (fol. 46, 66, and quires 13-17 on paper, with watermarks (fol. 66, a rooster; quires 13-17, fowl similar to Briquet 12225 (Italy, late 15th century)); quires 11-12 on paper with parchment outer bifolium; all other leaves parchment) ; fol. i (modern paper?) + 56 + i (modern paper?) ; 18 26 34+2 4-58 68+1 71+1 88+1 98 104 11-158 1610 1712 186 196+1 2010+2...
Layout: 1 or 2 columns, 40-43 lines. Bounding and writing lines in blind or light red plummet. Two lines of music on fol. 77, heightened square notation, staff lines not visible.
Script: Written in several humanistic bookhands and cursives in brown ink with red rubrics.
Decoration: 10-line initial in colors on gold with green and blue acanthus into margins and gold balls with brown filigree, historiated with portrait of St. Francis (fol. 21); 10-line initials in similar scheme without historiation, fol. 22; 3- to 6-line spaces unfilled throughout. Arbor amoris in red on fol. 121v.
Binding: Limp vellum over pasteboard, later paper endleaves and pastedowns, 19th-century label remnants on spine.
Origin: Written in Northern Italy in the late fifteenth century; some orthographic features, in particular the use of [-xia] for [-sia] at the end of a word, suggest a possible origin in Venice.
Provenance: Early modern pencil notations inside front cover and on first flyleaf, #1014 on front cover and inner front pastedown. Sold by Ludwig Rosenthal to Franciscan scholar and biographer Paul Sabatier (1858-1928).
Immediate source of acquisition: Acquired by the BPL from Sabatier's estate in 1930 along with several other manuscripts and his library of Francisciana, collectively known as the "Paul Sabatier Franciscan Collection" (Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts 42807 and 198008). BPL plate inside front cover.
Call number: MS q Med.40.
Former call number: MS Fr.96.F84.
Bibliography: Zoltan Haraszti, "An Early Franciscan Breviary," More Books VII (1931): 327-340; Zoltan Haraszti, "A Library about St. Francis," More Books VII (1931): 275; L. Leonardo and G. Marrani, LIO - ITS/ Repertorio della Lirica Italiana delle Origini (Florence, 2005). - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444907
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/3n207685c/manifest
- Holding Institution:
