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Metadata

DS ID:

DS3559

Shelfmark:

MS q Med.289

Title:

Le uie de Sion pia[n]gono

De mystica theologia

Author:

Hugh, of Balma, active 13th century

Hugh of Balma WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

1442

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

In Italian

Italian WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 80 leaves : paper ; 220 x 140 (155 x 100) mm bound to 23 cm

Former Owner(s):

Segre Amar, Sion, 1910-

Sion Segre Amar WIKIDATA

Enluminures (Firm)

Enluminures WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from opening line of text; date from colophon; place of production conjectured based on contents.
Collation: Parchment, fol. i (modern paper) + 80 + fol. i (modern paper) ; i10 ii-vi12 vii10 ; modern pencil foliation in upper-right margins.
Layout: Ruled in lead point, with vertical and horizontal bounding lines, 24 to 33 lines per page.
Script: Written in black ink in a hybrida formata; headings in red ink in a gothic textualis.
Decoration: Three-line initials on first several pages rubricated in red; initials otherwise with guide letters, but unrubricated.
Binding: Bound in modern rigid vellum.
Origin: Copied in Italy and completed in October 1442 (see contents note for colophon).
Provenance: Front flyleaf with sticker "133". Offered at Sotheby's (London, 9 July 1973, lot 36) to Sion Segre Amar, with his label on rear pastedown: "SSA -- Nasce a guisa di rampollo a pie del vero il dubbio 111". Offered again at Sotheby's (London, 1 December 1998, lot 87) to a private collector. Offered again at Sotheby's (London, 3 July 2018, lot 20).
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased from Les Enluminures in April, 2023.

Keyword:

Vellum bindings

Gothic scripts

Manuscripts, Italian

Italy

Manuscripts, Medieval

Prayer--Catholic Church

Early works

Massachusetts--Boston

Contemplation

Spiritual life--Catholic Church

Institutional Record:

https://bpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C8521403

IIIF Manifest:

https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/3r0781472/manifest

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library