Epistles : in Latin

Item Information

Title:
Epistles : in Latin
Title (uniform):
Epistles. Latin
Description:
Each epistle here listed with corresponding numbers from "Bibliotheca Hieronymiana Manuscripta" (BHM); additional texts identified with references from "Patrologia Latina" (PL): 35; 36; PL 23:1117-1142; 62; 19; 20; 15; 16; 18B; 18A; 21; 126; 14; 52; 58; 53; 55:1-4; 55:5-end; 57; 83; 84; 69; 146; 73; 17; 124; PL 30:176-181; 145; 122; 47; PL 30:116-122; 129; 51; 71; 61; 109; PL 23:211-282; PL 23:183-206; 70; 74; 72; 4; 5; 76; 68; 147; 6; 8; 125; 10; 7; 9; 12; 2; 119; 140:16-end; 48; 49; 97; 50; 45; 11; 107; 117; 13; 54; 79; 123; 64; 120; 121; 59; 40; 26; 25; 41; 42; 27; 44; 43; 38; 29; 34; 32; 30; 28; 60; PL 30:288-292; 118; 77; 75; 39; 23; 24; 1; 127; 66; 108; 22; 128; 61 (var.; begins "Utile tibi fuerat"); 72; 82; 86; PL 23:211-338.
Author:
Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420
Contributor:
White, Henry, 1821 or 1822-1900
Auctioneer:
Sotheby's (Firm)
Binder:
J. & J. Leighton
Former owner:
Brick Row Bookshop
Date:
1425–1475
Format:
Manuscripts
Books
Genre:
Illuminations
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Italy
Manuscripts, Medieval--Italy
humanistic scripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Medieval and Early Renaissance Manuscripts (Collection of Distinction)
Places:
Italy
Extent:
321 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 344 x 245 (253 x 161) mm
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/00003742g
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Place of origin:
[Italy]
Language:
Latin
Table of Contents:
1. fol. 1-2: Capitula (Incipiunt capitula libri espistolarum beati hyeronimi/Epistola damasi papae ad hyeronimum ... / ... Adversus iovinianum CCLXVIII/ Finiunt capitula)
2. fol. 2v: [blank]
3. fol. 3-321v: Epistles (INCIPIUNT EPISTOLA DAMASI VRBIS ROMANE EPISCOPI AD BEATUM HYERONIMUM PRESBITERUM DILECTISSIMO FILIO/Dormientem te et longo ... / ... ephicuri luxuriam susceperunt)
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Origin: Written in Italy in the mid-15th century. The sequence of epistles in collections such as this varies significantly from manuscript to manuscript; the order in the present copy is very similar to that in several other 15th-century Italian collections: London, British Library Burney 322; Florence, Bibl. Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. XIX, cod. 12; and Milan, Bibl. Ambrosiana, C.250.Inf. The list of chapter headings on fol. 1-2 is not always correct, and includes several extra entries (in particular, the capitula list includes a series of eighteen epistles to or from Augustine that are not included in the manuscript but that are found in the three Italian manuscripts listed above). The folio numbers added by a later hand in Roman numerals are correct, with no numbers having been added to the capitula of the missing epistles. This may imply that the capitula list was copied from a different manuscript, perhaps the exemplar of the present copy, without reference to the actual contents of the book.
Notes (ownership):
Provenance: Belonged to Henry White, his sale at Sotheby's London 21 April 1902, lot 1057. Sold by Leighton, 1912, lot 139. Sold by Sotheby's London on 4 March 1920 and again on 11 April 1938.
Notes (acquisition):
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased in 1939 from The Brick Row Bookshop.
Notes (citation):
Bond, W.H. Supplement to the Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, 201
Notes (object):
Secundo folio: Ad marcellam de diapsalma ...
Collation: Parchment, fol. ii + 321 + ii ; 1-31¹⁰ 32¹⁰⁺¹ (fol. 321 is a tipped-in singleton) ; some catchwords preserved in extreme lower right corner of final verso. Contemporary Roman numerals in brown ink, upper right recto, numbers fol. 3 as "i" and so reaches "cccxix" instead of 321. Modern arabic foliation in pencil, upper outer corner of each page.
Layout: Two columns, 44 lines. Vertical bounding lines in blind or light plummet.
Script: Written in a humanistic bookhand in brown ink with red rubrics.
Decoration: Each epistle begins with a three-line epigraphic capital alternating blue with red harping and penwork or red with purple. Seven-line white vine initial in gold on colors on fol. 3, extending full height of inner margin with blank armorial within a green wreath with white vine extensions in gold and colors in lower margin.
Binding: Modern blind-stamped calf over pasteboard, gilt-fillet board edges and turn-ins, all edges gilt, spine gilt in compartments, "S. HIERONYMUS/ EPISTOLAE" and "MS/ XV. SAEC." Vellum pastedowns and endleaves, decorative head and tailbands, by J. and J. Leighton.
Notes (bibliography):
Bibliography: More Books/BPL Quarterly XIV (1939): 229; B. Lambert, Bibliotheca Hieronymiana Manuscripta (Steenbrugis, 1969): I:144 (nr. 0)
Notes (language):
In Latin.
Identifier:
06_01_018661
Call #:
RARE BKS MS f Med.78
MS 1484 (no longer used)
Barcode:
39999090789395