Boston Public Library, MS q Med.88

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DS ID:

DS3552

Shelfmark:

MS q Med.88

Title:

Book of hours : use of Rome : in Latin].

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

Belgium]

Belgium TGN

Date:

between 1475 and 1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 205 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 193 x 145 (105 x 70) mm bound to 20 cm, in box 22 cm

Former Owner(s):

Bernard Quaritch (Firm)

Bernard Quaritch Ltd WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
In Latin.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Collation: Parchment, fol. i (current pastedown) + 205 ; 16 (first leaf is pastedown) 26+1 (fol. 6 is singleton) 3-258 ; some signatures preserved in brown cursive in the lower right corner, e.g. fol. 73. Catchwords in brown cursive, lower right last verso of most quires. Modern pencil foliation in arabic numerals.
Layout: Single column, 19 lines. Bounding lines in red plummet, full-length top to bottom.
Script: Written in a gothic textualis formata in black ink with red rubrics.
Decoration: Each suffrage begins with a seven-line initial in gold and colors with 3/4 border of scrolling acanthus with flowers on gold or colors. Initials historiated as follows: fol. 154, 154v, 155, 155v, 156, 157, 157v, 158, 158v, 162, 174, 184, 194. One- to two-line initials throughout in lavender with white filigree on red with gold background, or vice versa. Calendar: borders, zodiac...
Binding: Late 19th-century red velvet over pasteboards, heavily rubbed and worn. Parchment pastedowns front and back, all edges gilt. Housed in a gilt-fillet red morocco case, spine gilt-stamped in compartments, lined with red watered silk.
Origin: Illuminated in Flanders (possibly Bruges) in the last quarter of the 15th century for the use of a patron in the Champagne region in Northeast France.
Provenance: Pencil notes in Flemish, front pastedown and flyleaf.
Immediate source of acquisition: Bought from Quaritch, December 1939 (see tipped-in description on front flyleaf, from Catalogue of Illuminated and Other Mss, 1931, no. 49).
Call number: MS q Med.88.
Former call number: MS 1515.
Bibliography: Nancy Netzer, ed., Secular/Sacred 11th-16th Century Works from the Boston Public Library and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston College, 2006), no. 11; W.J. Coe, "A Flemish Book of Hours," BPL Quarterly III (Jan. 1951): 35-43.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Medieval

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Illumination of books and manuscripts

devotional calendars

Books of hours

Gothic scripts

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444919

IIIF Manifest:

https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/th83qp103/manifest

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library