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Metadata

DS ID:

DS3564

Shelfmark:

MS q Med.294

Title:

Six fragments of Beneventan minuscule from three separate manuscripts

Beneventan minuscule

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

approximately 1150-1199

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

In Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 6 items : parchment, 29-66 x 36-109 mm in album 10 x 14 cm

Former Owner(s):

Schøyen, Martin

Martin Schøyen WIKIDATA

Bernard Quaritch, Ltd

Bernard Quaritch Ltd WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. fragments.
Title devised by cataloger; catalog record based in part on dealer's description.
Script: Written in Beneventan minuscule, Monte Cassino type.
Decoration: Fragment 5 with portions of a floriated initial in red, yellow, blue, and green.
Binding: Each fragment affixed to a stub; bound in modern tan buckram.
Origin: Copied in Southern Italy, second half of the 12th century.
Provenance: All fragments removed from bindings. Offered as a group at Sotheby's, London, (21 June, 1994, lot 5) to Bernard Quaritch. Later in the collection of Martin Schøyen, his MS 1855/3, 1855/4, and 1855/5.
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., in May, 2023.
Former and related shelfmarks: Fragment 1 formerly Schøyen MS 1855/4. Apparently from the same parent manuscript as Basel, Universitätsbibliothek, MS CL 216 (ii), a single leaf from a pocket-sized Bible written in single columns. Fragment 2 formerly Schøyen MS 1855/3. Fragments 3-6 formerly Schøyen MS 1855/5. Apparently from the same parent manuscript as Toronto, Virginia Brown Collection, MS. 2.
Call number: MS q Med.294.

Keyword:

Manuscript waste

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Italy

Manuscripts, Medieval

Massachusetts--Boston

Institutional Record:

https://bpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C8532737

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Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library