Boston Public Library, MS q Med.6

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS3542

Shelfmark:

MS q Med.6

Title:

Psalter, canticles, and litany : in Latin].

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

France]

France TGN

Date:

between 1275 and 1299

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 73 leaves : parchment ; 142 x 95 (97 x 65) mm

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

Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962

Sydney Cockerell WIKIDATA

Chartreuse de Valenciennes

Notre-Dame de Macourt monastery WIKIDATA

Note:

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.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Medieval

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Inscriptions

Psalters

Gothic scripts

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444909

IIIF Manifest:

https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/cn69q123p/manifest

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library