Boston Public Library, MS q Med.81
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS3547
- Shelfmark:
- MS q Med.81
- Title:
- Book of hours : use of Rennes : in Latin].
- Catholic Church
- Place:
- Rennes?]
- Date:
- ca. 1430
- Language:
- lat
fre
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 163 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 230 x 155 (110 x 82) mm bound to 25 cm in box 26 cm
- Former Owner(s):
- De Fontenay, Marguerite
De Vollant, Francois
Monsieur de Bel Air
Carman, Jeanne Françoise Maclovie de
Placide de Ferron, Marie Ange-Toussaint
Québriac family
A. Rosenthal, Ltd
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
In Latin, with some French.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Collation: Parchment, fol. ii (medieval parchment) + 163 ; i2 14−1 (lacking one leaf after fol. 5) 2-88 98−1 (missing leaf between 62 and 63) 10-138 148−1 (first leaf of quire missing) 15-188 192 202 228 238−1 (lacking one leaf before fol. 159) 246−1 (final leaf cancelled) ; modern pencil foliation in arabic numerals written after missing leaves were removed, upper outer corner of each page...
Layout: One column; 16 lines in calendar, 14 lines in remaining sections. Bounding and writing lines in red; bounding lines extend to top and bottom edges.
Script: Written in a gothic script in black ink with red and blue rubrics.
Decoration (primary): 830 one-line illuminated initials, with red and blue backgrounds; 138 two-line initials (blue and red letters with botanical, diapered, herald, or portrait decoration, over illuminated background); four three-line, and ten four-line historiated initials bound by illuminated frames (red or blue letters, on alternate color background and filled with gilt decoration);152...
Decoration (secondary): 23 half-page miniatures: fol. 14, 25v, 37v, 39, 40, 46v, 51, 55, 59v, 69, 89v, 122v, 130v, 131v, 133v, 134v, 135v, 136v, 137v, 138v, 139v, 143, 148.
Consult description by Lisa Fagin Davis for further information.
Binding: Ca. 16th-century dark brown leather, with vellum pastedowns front and back. Frame and medallion on front and back covers and flower stamps on spin are tooled in gilt. Housed in custom brown cloth clamshell case with white paper label on front, "Ms q. Med. 81."
Origin: Produced in Brittany, possibly Rennes, around the year 1430. Booten argues that the manuscript was likely presented by a member of the Québriac family as a marriage gift to the lady of Chasné, born into the Fontenay de Loyat family - the Québriac arms are shown combined with that of Fontenay in the lower right corner of fol. 143. The Lady Chasné appears in the manuscript wearing a...
Provenance: Several 16th- through 18th-century ownership inscriptions are present on the opening leaves (transcribed by Booten), indicating that the manuscript remained in the Québriac family for several hundred years. Thomas, lord of Guémadeuc and Québriac, and his wife Jacquemine de Beaumanoir, by 1582; Françoise de Vollant, wife of René de la Bintinaye, by 1639; by gift to one Monsieur de...
Byname: Québriac Hours.
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased by the BPL from A. Rosenthal, 10 April 1940.
Call number: MS q Med.81.
Former call number: MS 1489.
Bibliography: Jeffrey Hamburger, et al., eds. Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections. (Chestnut Hill: McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2016): no. 107; Diane Booton, "A Breton Book of Hours of M. de Fontenay, Lady of Chasné," Scriptorium LVIII (2004): 174-201; J.-L. Deuffic, "Les Heures de Marguerite de Fontenay: Boston, Public Library, ms q. med. 81," Pecia 7... - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444914
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/v692tc06j/manifest
- Holding Institution:
