Boston Public Library, MS q Med.79
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS3545
- Shelfmark:
- MS q Med.79
- Title:
- Miscellany of works of logic and philosophy : in Latin /
- Place:
- Spain]
- Date:
- between 1325 and 1375].
- Language:
- lat
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 236 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 260 x 190 (approximately 140 x 100) mm bound to 27 cm
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
In Latin.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Secundo folio: ... quidem uno solo ...
Collation: Parchment, fol. i (paper) + 236 + i (paper) ; 1-98 108+1 (fol. 81 is a tipped-in singleton added to complete the text) 11-1910 2012 21-2510 263. The last three leaves are singletons that were originally the first leaves of what was likely a quire of 10, implying that seven leaves are lacking at the end; the amount of text that is lacking (Analytica priora II:18-27), would fill...
Layout: Single column, 19-24 lines. Bounding and ruling lines in light plummet, to edges, vertical bounding lines doubled. Some prickings preserved in outer margin for writing lines, in upper and lower margins for bounding.
Script: Written in four round proto-gothic hands in brown or black with red rubrics and headings.
Decoration: Two-line penwork initials throughout in red with brown or purple filigree or blue with red, a few slighly larger with multicolor filigree; four six-line initials in gold and colors (fol. 11, 31v, 46v, 59), diagrams throughout; four six-line historiated initials in more muted colors with leafy extensions into margins: fol. 1: Porphyry teaching; fol. 82: Aristotle teaching a young...
Binding: 17th-century white blind-stamped pigskin over boards, lacking upper clasps and part of lower band, turn-ins blind-stamped, paper pastedowns and endleaves with armorial watermark, rear flyleaf with countermark ICP (?), edges stained blue, brown leather spine label gilt-stamped, reads "MANUSCRIPTA/ PHILOSOPHIA/ POR FIRY ET/ ARISTO." Old shelfmark XCIV on paper label at head of spine.
Origin: Written in Spain (based on style of script and miniatures) in the first half of the 14th century.
Provenance: Scraped inscription on fol. 160, not legible under ultraviolet light.
Immediate source of acquisition: Acquired by BPL in November 1939 from Hirsch, also offered in his Cat. 1 (22 August 928), in which he attributes the illustrations to an "Austrian miniaturist."
Call number: MS q Med.79.
Former call number: MS 1487. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444912
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/j3863z79w/manifest
- Holding Institution:
