Boston Public Library, MS q Med.121

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DS ID:

DS3460

Shelfmark:

MS q Med.121

Title:

I fioretti di San Francesco; in Italian

I fioretti di San Francesco

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

between 1450 and 1500

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ita

Italian WIKIDATA

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 66, 1 leaves : parchment ; 255 x 175 (175 x 122) mm bound to 26 cm

Former Owner(s):

H.P. Kraus (Firm)

H. P. Kraus (firm) WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from contents.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based primarily on description by Lisa Fagin Davis.
Secundo folio: ...o altutto disposto...
Collation: Parchment, fol. ii (modern parchment) + 66 + i (medieval parchment) + iii (modern parchment) ; 1-610 74+2 (final two leaves are tipped-in singletons) ; decorative catchwords, lower center margin final verso each quire. Modern arabic pencil foliation, upper outer corner of each page.
Layout: Single column, 33 lines. Bounding and writings lines in light plummet or blind.
Script: Written in a rounded gothic bookhand in brown ink with red rubrics.
Decoration: Two-line red with blue or blue with red throughout, for chapter initials; sentence initials stroked yellow; eight-line red and blue puzzle initial on fol. 1 with red and blue filigree into inner and upper margin.
Binding: ca. 1915 English binding of crushed red morocco over boards by Katharine Adams, her signature stamp inside rear cover (a key with initials K A), title and date gilt-stamped on spine: "I FIOR/ETTI/ DI/ SAN/ FRAN/ CESCO" and "CIRCA/ MC/ CCC/ LXXX"; gilt fillet turn-ins. Original pastedown pulled up and preserved as parchment flyleaf at back (preceded by three modern parchment...
Origin: Written in Italy in the second half of the fifteenth century. Usualy attributed to Ugolino di Monte Santa Maria (now Montegiorgio).
Immediate source of acquisition: Acquired by BPL from H.P. Kraus in 1948 (cat. 1948, no. 96), Kraus notes inside front cover with price of $250.
Call number: MS q Med.121.
Former call number: MS 1543.
Bibliography: BPL Quarterly VII (1955): 76.

Keyword:

Gothic scripts

Manuscripts, Medieval

Italy

Manuscript waste

Manuscripts, Italian

Prices (Provenance)

Francis, of Assisi, Saint, 1182-1226

Legends

Early works

Massachusetts--Boston

Institutional Record:

https://bpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C8444796

IIIF Manifest:

https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/4f16h4877/manifest

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library