17th-century embroidered silk purse stabilized with fragments of medieval manuscript waste

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Item Information

Title:
17th-century embroidered silk purse stabilized with fragments of medieval manuscript waste
Description:
A ca. 17th-century silk purse embroidered with wool and metal-wrapped threads; interior stabilized with four triangular parchment fragments cut from the leaves of a medieval manuscript. Based on analysis of script, text, and rubrics, the manuscript from which the fragments were cut was possibly a breviary and likely Italian, dating from the 14th or 15th centuries. The text is written in double columns in a southern textualis formata (rotunda), with initials rubricated in alternating red and blue. Much text remains visible, including a rubric for the vespers hymn (ad ues[peras] y[mpnus]) and text of Vexilla regis.
Former owner:
Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
Date:
[1300?–1700?]
Format:
Manuscripts
Genre:
Gothic scripts
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and Modern)--Italy
Manuscripts, Medieval--Italy
embroidering
Broadsides
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Medieval and Early Renaissance Manuscripts (Collection of Distinction)
Subjects:
Early manuscript fragments
Places:
Italy
Extent:
1 purse : embroidered silk over parchment ; 13 x 17 cm
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/5712s083r
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Place of origin:
[Italy?] ; [Italy?]
Language:
Latin
Notes (acquisition):
Purchase; Bernard Quaritch; 2020; 2020.17.
Purchased from Bernard Quaritch in February, 2020 (2020.17).
Notes (date):
Original manuscript likely created between 1300 and 1500; purse likely constructed between 1600 and 1700.
Identifier:
06_01_019314
Call #:
RARE BKS MS q Med.277
Barcode:
39999092730207