Boston Public Library, MS q Med.7

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS3543

Shelfmark:

MS q Med.7

Title:

Psalter : use of Sarum : in Latin].

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

England]

England TGN

Date:

between 1425 and 1450

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 157 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 219 x 157 (160 x 100) mm bound to 23 cm

Former Owner(s):

Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962

Sydney Cockerell WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
In Latin.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Secundo folio: Marcius/ Primus mandantem...
Collation: Parchment, fol. ii (19th-century paper) + 157 + ii (19th-century paper) ; 16 216 316+1 (fol. 37 tipped-in singleton) 4-58 66 7-812 912−2 1024 (two leaves cancelled between fol. 94 and 95) 11-128 1316 146 ; catchwords in lower outer corner, final verso of each quire. Modern pencil arabic foliation, upper outer corner of each page, skips second-to-last folio (blank) so reaches 156...
Layout: Single column, 20 lines. Bounding and ruling lines in light brown (calendar in red).
Script: Written in a gothic bookhand (calendar in a different hand) in black ink with red rubrics, fol. 36 only.
Decoration: Versal initials 1-line alternating red and blue; Psalm initials 2-line blue with red filigree; major divisions begin with 5-line initial in typical English palette of pale blue, pink and green on gold with acanthus and infill in colors, 3/4 gold-bar border, acanthus at corners, with black tendril vines.
Binding: English blind-rolled and -stamped brown morocco over pasteboard, ca. 1815, title gilt-stamped red leather spine label reads "ROMAN/ MISSAL", spine gilt in compartments, all edges gilt, paper pastedowns and endleaves, gilt fillet turn-ins and board edges.
Origin: Written in England in the second quarter of the fifteenth century, Sarum use. The calendar includes St. Batildis (30 January), Richard Confessor (3 April), Swythunus (15 July), Edith (16 September), Edmund (16 November), and many other English saints, although it is not localizable beyond Sarum use. Easter is noted on March 27. The name of Thomas Becket has been expunged from the...
Provenance: Owned in the 15th and 16th centuries by one Cook family, with several birth and death notices in Latin and English throughout the calendar. Signature of Thomas Dunn, front flyleaf.
Immediate source of acquisition: Sold to BPL by Sydney Cockerell, 1901 (his annotation on front pastedown)
Call number: MS q Med.7.
Former call number: MS G.402.11.
Bibliography: Zoltan Haraszti, "Medieval Manuscripts in The Library," More Books III (1928): 58 (this description pasted to front flyleaf)

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Inscriptions

Psalters

Embossed stamps

Manuscripts, Medieval

Illumination of books and manuscripts

devotional calendars

Gothic scripts

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444910

IIIF Manifest:

https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/ft84cn84b/manifest

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library