I fioretti di San Francesco : in Italian

Item Information

Title:
I fioretti di San Francesco : in Italian
Title (alt.):
Divinae institutiones. Liber I. De falsa religione
Attributed name:
Ugolino, di Monte Santa Maria
Contributor:
Lactantius, approximately 240-approximately 320
Binder:
Adams, Katharine, 1862-1952
Former owner:
H.P. Kraus (Firm)
Date:
[1450–1500]
Format:
Manuscripts
Books
Genre:
Manuscripts, Italian--Italy
Manuscripts, Medieval--Italy
Manuscript waste
Prices (Provenance)
Gothic scripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Medieval and Early Renaissance Manuscripts (Collection of Distinction)
Subjects:
Francis, of Assisi, Saint, 1182-1226--Legends--Early works to 1800
Places:
Italy
Extent:
66, 1 leaves : parchment ; 255 x 175 (175 x 122) mm bound to 26 cm
Permalink:
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Place of origin:
[Italy]
Language:
Italian
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title from contents.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based primarily on description by Lisa Fagin Davis.
Origin: Written in Italy in the second half of the fifteenth century. Usualy attributed to Ugolino di Monte Santa Maria (now Montegiorgio).
Notes (acquisition):
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.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Notes (citation):
Bond, W.H. Supplement to the Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, 213
Notes (object):
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 flyleaves), a leaf from a fifteenth-century manuscript of Lactantius' Divine Institutes, Book I, "De falsa religione," ch. xviii.
Notes (bibliography):
Bibliography: BPL Quarterly VII (1955): 76.
Identifier:
06_01_018685
Call #:
RARE BKS MS q Med.121
MS 1543 (no longer used)
Barcode:
39999091846541