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Metadata

DS ID:

DS3541

Shelfmark:

MS q Med.41

Title:

Saints' Lives : Franciscan : in French].

Place:

Troyes?]

Troyes TGN

Date:

between 1450 and 1475

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

fre

French WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

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

Joseph Barrois WIKIDATA

Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of, 1797-1878

Bertram Ashburnham, 4th Earl of Ashburnham WIKIDATA

Sabatier, Paul, 1858-1928

Paul Sabatier WIKIDATA

Maggs Bros

Maggs Bros Ltd WIKIDATA

John R. Anderson & Co

John R. Anderson & Co WIKIDATA

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:

Stained calf bindings

Manuscripts, French

France

Manuscripts, Medieval

Calf bindings

Gothic scripts

Bookplates

Francis, of Assisi, Saint, 1182-1226

Early works

Massachusetts--Boston

Franciscans

Clare, of Assisi, Saint, 1194-1253

Saints

Peter Martyr, Saint, approximately 1205-1252

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444908

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Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library