Boston Public Library, MS q Med.41
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS3541
- Shelfmark:
- MS q Med.41
- Title:
- Saints' Lives : Franciscan : in French].
- Place:
- Troyes?]
- Date:
- between 1450 and 1475
- Language:
- fre
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 188 leaves : paper ; 268 x 197 (177 x 123) mm bound to 28 cm
- Former Owner(s):
- Barrois, Joseph, approximately 1785-1855
Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of, 1797-1878
Sabatier, Paul, 1858-1928
Maggs Bros
John R. Anderson & Co
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
In French.
Title devised by cataloger.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Secundo folio: Nous qui avons este...
Collation: Paper, with watermark of the arms of Troyes ("Bande chargée de deux cotices potencées et contre potencées"), nearly identical to Briquet 1045 (see I:79), paperstock associated with Troyes and the Champagne region of France, fol. ii (later paper) + 188 + i (later paper) ; 1-198 2010 218 22-246 ; quires signed in early modern pencil, probably by most recent binder, lower right corner...
Layout: One column, 31 lines. Bounding and rulings lines in red plummet.
Script: Written in a bâtarde script in brown ink with brown rubrics.
Decoration: 2-line red epigraphic capitals throughout, spaces left unfilled on fol. 175 and following. Each initial or initial-space is sequentially numbered in modern pencil, 1-325.
Binding: 18th-century "cat's paw" calf over pasteboard, paper pastedowns and endleaves (two in front, one in back, armorial watermark), red edges, spine gilt-stamped in compartments with red leather label, "CRONIQ/ DE ST/ FRANCO." Sabatier describes a green Barrois-Ashburnham label on spine reading "610," now lost.
Origin: Written in the Champagne region of France, possibly Troyes (as evidenced by the paper stock) in the third quarter of the fifteenth century.
Provenance: Owned by Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Barrois (1784-1855), his 1849 sale (n. 610) to Bertram, the Fourth Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878); Ashburnham sale, Sotheby's London, 10 June 1901, lot 530 (lot number written inside front cover, catalogue description pasted to fol. i; SDBM 9482), to Maggs. Bought in London by J. R. Anderson, who offered it to Franciscan scholar Paul Sabatier on 6 May...
Immediate source of acquisition: Sold to Boston Public Library in 1928 by the widow of Paul Sabatier (Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts 198009).
Call number: MS q Med.41.
Former call number: MS Fr.96.Sp3.
Bibliography: Zoltan Haraszti, "A Library about St. Francis," More Books VI (1931): 273-286; Paul Sabatier, "Description du Manuscrit Anderson-Sabatier," Neerlandia Franciscana III (1920): 27-53. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444908
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archivelab.org/iiif/saintslivesfranc00unse/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
