Boston Public Library, MS q Med.303
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS25479
- Shelfmark:
- MS q Med.303
- Title:
- Book of hours; use of Rome : in Latin
- Catholic Church
- Place:
- Italy
- Date:
- between 1475 and 1499?
- Language:
- In Latin
- Material:
- parchment, ill.
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 183 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 96 x 70 (55 x 40) mm bound to 10 cm
- Former Owner(s):
- Hawkins, Rush C. 1831-1920
White, William Augustus, 1843-1927
Zucchi, Antonio, active 19th century Francis Edwards (Firm)
Middle Hill Rare Books & Manuscripts AB (Stockholm, Sweden) Stephen Butler Rare Books & Manuscripts - Note:
- Ms. codex.
Title devised by cataloger; place of production based on script and on the inclusion of numerous saints associated with Brescia.
Collation: Parchment, fol. i (paper) + 183 + i (paper) ; I12 II-IX10 X10(-7-10), with loss of text of the Mass of the Virgin) XI-XII10 XIII6 XIV-XIX10 XX10(-1, first leaf a cancelled blank); horizontal catchwords at the end of each quire. Modern pencil foliation in upper margin of each recto, those numbers used here for reference.
Layout: Single column, 14 lines, bounding and writing lines in plummet.
Script: Written in black and red ink in a southern gothic textualis. Single-line initials rubricated in blue and red with penwork in contrasting colors.
Decoration: Thirteen large historiated initials, most terminating in acanthus leaves, bezants, and scrolled borders with birds, flowers, and animals, as follows: 1. fol.13, The Annunciation, with a full-page gilt architectural border on dark blue ground with gold scrolls. Putti in the upper and lower margins, the latter in front of a mountainous landscape and holding a blank escutcheon. 2...
Binding: Bound in ca. 16th-century red goatskin panelled in gilt. Panels enclose stars and swirling foliage around a central gilt stamp of the Virgin and Child?, now heavily rubbed (front cover) and the Crucifixion (back cover). Two original metal clasps, with straps renewed.
Origin: Created in or around Brescia during the late 15th-century.
Provenance: With one Antonio Zucchi from at least 1844 through 1857. In a note at front, in Italian, Zucchi describes how he discovered the book among his grandmother's belongings; he also records the date of his wife's death (3 October 1857) in a note on the same leaf. On the front pastedown, a 19th-century seller's description, in English, of the present volume, describing it as a missal. In...
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased in from Stephen Butler Rare Books and Manuscripts in 2025.
Call number: MS q Med.303. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://bpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C9033661
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/gb19nt31r/manifest
- Holding Institution:
