Boston Public Library, MS pf Med.292

Metadata

DS ID:

DS3562

Shelfmark:

MS pf Med.292

Title:

Papal bull in the name of Sixtus IV uniting the church of St. Peter "ad Montonem" with a perpetual chaplaincy dedicated to the Virgin Mary in the church of Atria : in Latin].

Author:

Catholic Church. Pope (1471-1484 : Sixtus IV)

Sixtus IV WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy]

Italy TGN

Date:

1474

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

In Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 sheet : parchment ; 559 x 368 (440 x 216) mm

Note:

Ms. document.
Title devised by cataloger.
Layout: Written in a single column, 34 lines, bounding and writing lines in lead point, pricking in outer margins. Holes for hemp cords in lower margin.
Script: Written in brown ink in a gothic semitextualis with aspects of gothico-antiqua.
Origin: Copied in Penne, Italy, no earlier than June, 1474 (date referenced in text).
Provenance: Offered at Christie's, Rome (15 December, 1998, lot 191) to John and Raquel Russell.
Immediate source of acquisition: Gift of John and Raquel Russell of New York, New York, in April, 2023.
Call number: MS pf Med.292.

Keyword:

Gothic scripts

Manuscripts, Medieval

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8526048

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library