Excerpts from the Divine Office : for the use of the Poor Clares of Corpo de Christo : in Latin and Italian

Item Information

Title:
Excerpts from the Divine Office : for the use of the Poor Clares of Corpo de Christo : in Latin and Italian
Creator:
Catholic Church
Scribe:
Tommaso de Bianchis
Former owner:
Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of, 1797-1878
Former owner:
Barrois, Joseph, approximately 1785-1855
Former owner:
Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962
Auctioneer:
Sotheby's (Firm)
Date:
1485
Format:
Manuscripts
Books
Genre:
Illuminations
Inscriptions
Marginalia
Embossed stamps
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Italy
Manuscripts, Medieval--Italy
Gothic scripts
devotional calendars
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Medieval and Early Renaissance Manuscripts (Collection of Distinction)
Places:
Italy > Emilian (region) > Bologna (province) > Bologna
Extent:
77 leaves : parchment ; 168 x 124 (110 x 87) mm bound to 18 cm
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/4168bn733
Terms of Use:
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Place of origin:
Bologna
Language:
Latin
Table of Contents:
1. fol. 1-43: Lo tratato de lo ascentuare le dictione o vero parole de lo officio divino [extracts from the Divine Office] In nomine domini nostril yesu Christi/ In commentia lo tratato de lo ascentuare le dictione o vero parole de lo officio divino/ Per volere.../... Adveni. m. c. Petita m. p. Amen./ Finisse lo tratato de lo acentuare o vero proferire bene le parole de lo divino officio. Scripto a le dilecte in christo figliole del Monasterio del corpo de christo dentro] a Bologna per lo nostra venerabile et dignissimo p. F. Thomaxo di Bianchis de Bologna. Sperando e s[ ] refacto perticipe delle nostre oratione.
2. fol. 43v-46v: blank.
3. fol. 47-76: Rocolta delle Rubriche extrate dal Breviario [extracts from the breviary] Placeme dopolo tratato scripto dello acentuare.../...Et ala lectura del martilogio./ Finisse lo tratato o vero la Ricolta delle rubriche extrate dal breviario...Scripta alle perfacte Religiose del monasterio del corpo de christo dentro Bologna per lo lorometh pr[ ]e Fratre Thomaxo 1485...Pregate dio per me. (Fol. 62-63v: dominical/golden number tables, dated 1480-1575).
4. fol. 76v-77v: blank.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Origin: Written in Bologna in 1485 by Tommaso de Bianchis for the use of the Poor Clares of Corpus Christi (see colophons on fol. 43 and 76).
The litany includes such Franciscan saints as Anthony, Francis, Clare, Bishop Louis, and the Feast of the Stigmata.
Notes (ownership):
Provenance: A 16th-century Italian inscription on fol. iii verso begs the reader "for the love of God" to not remove the book from the church. Owned by Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Barrois (1784-1855), his 1849 sale (n. 220) to Bertram, the Fourth Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878) (green Barrois label on spine).
Notes (acquisition):
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased at the Ashburnham sale, Sotheby's London, 10 June 1901, lot 431 to Sydney Cockerell for the Boston Public Library (Cockerell's notes and Sotheby's lot number on fol. i verso).
Notes (citation):
Ricci, S. de. Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, I, 922.
Notes (object):
Secundo folio: Prosilivit m. p.
Parchment, fol. iii (first two flyleaves are later parchment; third is medieval parchment) + 77 + ii (later parchment, marbled paper) ; 1-4¹⁰ 5⁶ 6-7¹⁰ 8¹⁰⁺¹ ; some signatures extant in far lower right corner, e.g. "a4" on fol. 4. Vertical catchwords, lower right corner, last verso of each quire. Two series of modern pencilled folio numbers, in arabic numerals: 1) upper outer corner each page, begins on fol. iii so reaches 77 at end of the second text; 2) lower right (used here for reference), begins with 1 on fol. 1, so reaches 76 at the end of the second text.
Layout: Two columns, 25 lines. Bounding and writing lines in brown ink or light plummet.
Script: Written in a rounded gothic bookhand in brown ink with blue or red rubrics.
Decoration: Texts begin with 3-line initial in blue with red filigree; 2-line initials throughout text 2 alternating red with purple filigree or blue with red. Golden number/dominical table in red and blue, fol. 61.
Binding: 19th-century brown/purple morocco over pasteboard, blind-tooled, gilt-fillet border, gilt-filigree board edges and turn-ins, spine gilt in compartments, title "LO ACENTUAR/ LE DICTIONE/ RUBRICHE," brown marbled endpapers and conjugate flyleaves pasted to vellum bifolium whose conjugate is free flyleaf. Front hinge detached from bookblock. In front, free flyleaf followed by fragment of a 14th-century cursive commentary on I and II Kings.
Notes (bibliography):
Bibliography: Zoltan Haraszti, "Medieval Manuscripts in The Library," More Books III (1928): 68 (this description pasted inside rear cover).
Notes (language):
In Latin and Italian.
Identifier:
06_01_018651
Call #:
RARE BKS MS q Med.28
MS G.38.34 (no longer used)
Barcode:
39999091846301