Ms. codex. In Latin. Title devised by cataloger. Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based primarily on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis. Secundo folio: ...tis in cordibus vestris... Collation: Parchment codex, fol. i (modern paper) + 73 + i (modern paper) ; 1-88, 910−1. Final leaf cancelled. Lacking unknown number of leaves between fol. 64 and 65 (between quires 8 and 9) ; modern arabic pencil foliation, upper outer corner each page. Script: Written in an early gothic bookhand in black ink. Layout: 1 column, 26 lines. Bounding and ruling lines in light plummet. Decoration: 4-line blue and red "puzzle" initials with red and green filigree into margins, at major divisions (Ps. 1, 26, 38, 52, 68, 80, 95, 109); versal initials alternate red and blue, all other Psalms begin with 2-line initials alternating blue with red filigree. Binding: 19th-century green sheep over pasteboard, spine gilt-stamped in compartments, "Liber/ Beatae/ Mariae/ de/ Macourt"; edges darkened, possibly by smoke; paper pastedowns and endleaves. Housed in a custom black cloth clamshell, "Marie de Macourt" on gilt red leather spin label, marble-lined inside. Origin: Written in France in the mid-fourteenth century, possibly for the Carthusians of Valenciennes (Later Our Lady in Macourt); 16th-century inscription, fol. 1v, reads "Liber domus Beatae Mariae De macourt ordinis carthusia prope valencenas in Hanonia." Provenance: Owned by Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Barrois (1784-1855), his 1849 sale (n. 275) to Bertram, the Fourth Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878) (Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts 9471; green Barrois label on spine). Immediate source of acquisition: Ashburnham sale, Sotheby's London, 10 June 1901, lot 496 to Sydney Cockerell for the Boston Public Library (Cockerell's notes and Sotheby's lot number inside front cover). Call number: MS q Med.6. Former call number: MS G.38.45. Bibliography: Zoltan Haraszti, "Medieval Manuscripts in the Library," More Books III (1928): 58 (this description pasted to the front flyleaf). Consult curatorial file for futher information.
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