Boston Public Library, MS q Med.297
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS25473
- Shelfmark:
- MS q Med.297
- Title:
- Book of hours; use of Rome : in Latin
- Place:
- Italy
- Date:
- between 1475 and 1499?
- Language:
- lat
- Material:
- parchment
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 117 leaves : parchment ; 151 x 112 (80 x 55) mm bound to 16 cm
- Former Owner(s):
- Parroco di Taviano, Luigi Bruno, active 20th century
Libri, Edoardo, active 20th century
Saluti, Tomasso, active 20th century
That Guy with the Books
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
In Latin.
Title devised by cataloger; place and date conjectured from internal evidence (script, decoration)
Collation: Parchment, fol. iii (one leaf of 19th-century paper, two leaves of early parchment) + 117 + fol. i (early parchment) ; I8(-1 leaf before fol. 1, with loss of text) II-X8 XI8(-5, fol. 84, with loss of text, replaced with a blank leaf of 19th-century paper) XII8(-2, fol. 89, with loss of text, replaced with a blank parchment leaf) XIII-XIV8 XV6(+2, fol.113 is a singleton) ; horizontal...
Layout: Single column, 12 lines, bounding and writing lines ruled in red. Guide letters throughout.
Script: Written in two humanist bookhands under gothic influence (see, for example, biting between the bows of adjacent letters, throughout). Hand 1: fol.1-83v (Hours of the Virgin); hand 2: fol. 85r-117r.
Decoration: With seven illuminated white vine initials of three to six lines at the beginning of each hour in the Hours of the Virgin. Two-line illuminated initials on blue and purple grounds at the beginnings of each psalm, hymn, etc. Alternating blue and gold capitals throughout.
Binding: Bound in ca. 19th-century gilt red goatskin. Edges sprinkled in red.
Origin: Created in Italy in the late 15th century.
Provenance: On parchment flyleaf at front: "Regalato al P. Edoardo Libri da Don Luigi Bruno Parroco di Taviano [Lecce] nella Quaresima 1930" and "Al Fratello in Cristo Mons. Can. Tommaso Saluti il Fratello P. Edoardo Libri ricordando il suo 25mo di sacerdozio 2 Agosto 1939". Offered through Pandolfini Auction House, Florence (2023 May 23, lot 205) to Zubairul Islam dba That Guy with the Books.
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased in December, 2023, from That Guy with the Books. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://bpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C8711227
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/d217w158q/manifest
- Holding Institution:
