Boston Public Library, MS q Med.87

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DS ID:

DS3551

Shelfmark:

MS q Med.87

Title:

Ars moriendi : in French].

Place:

France]

France TGN

Date:

between 1475 and 1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

fre

French WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 11 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 175 x 132 (130 x 95) mm bound to 18 cm

Former Owner(s):

Bernard Quaritch (Firm)

Bernard Quaritch Ltd WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
In French.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Secundo folio: Et pource que la foy est fondement ...
Collation: Parchment, fol. v (four leaves of modern paper, one of modern parchment) + 11 + v (four leaves of modern paper, one of modern parchment) ; full collation not possible: likely bound out of order and certainly lacking several leaves ; modern arabic pencil foliation, upper right corner of each recto.
Layout: Single column, 28 lines. Bounding and writing lines in brown plummet.
Script: Written in a batarde in black ink. 2-line blue or red capitals throughout.
Decoration: Six full-page illustrations in the tradition of the Ars moriendi woodcuts (see contents and consult description by Lisa Fagin Davis for further detail).
Binding: 19th-century dark green velvet with parchment pastedowns and flyleaves with four paper flyleaves at front and back with elaborate armorial watermark.
Origin: Written in France around the year 1470. The text here is a translation of what is known as the "short version" of the Ars moriendi adapted from chapter two of the "long version" that appeared in manuscript form around the year 1415. This "short version" is known in numerous xylographic (blockbook) editions of the mid-fifteenth century, each of which is illustrated by one of thirteen...
Provenance: Dealer's numbers 32 and 34 on first flyleaf; offered several times by Quaritch: Dec. 1912, no. 245; May 1919, no. 7; 1931 catalogue, no. 1; Cat. 520 (1936), no. 751; and Cat. 550 (1938), no. 16.
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased from Quaritch in November, 1939.
Call number: MS q Med.87.
Former call number: MS 1514.
Bibliography: W. L. Schreiber, Manuel de l'amateur da la gravure sur bois et sur métal au XVe siècle (Berlin, 1891-1911), IV: 253-313 and VIII:LXXXXVIII - CIX; A. Shestack, Master E.S.: Five Hundredth Anniversary Exhibition (Philadelphia, 1967), no. 15.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, French

Manuscripts, Medieval

Death--Religious aspects

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444918

IIIF Manifest:

https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/cr56rj86x/manifest

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library