Boston Public Library, MS q Med.137
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS3472
- Shelfmark:
- MS q Med.137
- Title:
- Book of hours; use of Rome : in Latin
- Catholic Church
- Place:
- Ghent?
- Date:
- ca. 1470
- Language:
- lat
- Material:
- parchment, ill.
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 210 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 107 x 75 (65 x 42) mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Cooper, E. P. F
Maggs Bros
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
In Latin.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis and on Gregory T. Clark's entry in the 2016 Beyond words catalog (no. 118).
Collation: Parchment, fol. ii (parchment) + 210 + ii (parchment) ; too tightly bound to collate and there are no signatures or catchwords ; modern arabic pencil foliation, upper right corner of each recto.
Layout: Single column, 17 lines. Bounding and writing lines in light red plummet or blind.
Script: WWritten in a gothic cursiva formata (bastarda) in black ink with red rubrics.
Decoration: One- to four-line grisaille initials throughout with white filigree highlighting, on black with gold filigree highlighting; 32 seven-line miniatures or historiated initials in grisaille with blue, red and olive, and three full-page miniatures in gold and colors.
Consult description by Lisa Fagin Davis for full listing of miniatures and initials; consult exhibition description by Gregory T. Clark for further information regarding origin.
Binding: 19th-century sheepskin, with early central panels laid into both covers containing text stamped around central floral panel panel reading "Ora pro nobis sancta/ dei genetrix ut/ digni efficiamur promi/ssionibus christi"; later clasps, burns from original clasp nails on first and last five leaves; all edges gilt. Housed in modern half-green calf over pale grey canvas clamshell case...
Origin: Written perhaps in Ghent, ca. 1470, with miniatures in a semi-grisaille style attributed by Gregory T. Clark to a follower of the Master of the Moral Treatises.
Provenance: Ex libris inscription of the Jesuits of Louvain dated 1643, fol. 3; number "29" inscribed in a ca, 18th-century hand on fol. 210v; later owned by Commander E.P.F. Cooper, his sale Sotheby's London, 7 Dec. 1953, lot 50. BPL plate inside front cover.
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased from Maggs in 1955.
Call number: MS q Med.137.
Former call number: MS 1561.
Bibliography: BPL Quarterly IX (1957): 62; Jeffrey Hamburger, et al., eds. Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections. (Chestnut Hill: McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2016), no. 118. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://bpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C8444808
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/0k22bc204/manifest
- Holding Institution:
