Passionale : in Latin

Item Information

Title:
Passionale : in Latin
Creator:
Catholic Church
Illuminator:
Felice, Matteo, active 1467-1493
Former owner:
De Fouar, Beatrice
Former owner:
Leo S. Olschki (Firm)
Date:
[1475–1499]
Format:
Manuscripts
Books
Genre:
Illuminations
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Italy
Manuscripts, Medieval--Italy
Inscriptions
humanistic scripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Medieval and Early Renaissance Manuscripts (Collection of Distinction)
Places:
Italy
Extent:
79 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 137 x 97 (82 x 57) mm bound to 14 cm
Permalink:
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Place of origin:
[Italy]
Language:
Latin
Table of Contents:
1. fol. 1-20: The Passion according to St. Matthew.
2. fol. 20-36: The Passion according to St. Mark.
3. fol. 36-52: The Passion according to St. Luke.
4. fol. 52-64v: The Passion according to St. John.
5. fol. 65-66: (excerpt from the Divine Liturgy of St. Basil) Oratio magni basilii in sacris diebus quadragesime/ Omnipotens deus qui universam.../...ad adorandam sanctam resurrectionem quia benedictum atque glorificatum est...in saecula saeculorum amen.
6. fol. 66-67: (excerpt from the Divine Liturgy of St. Basil) Oratio devotissima magni basilii/ Qui in omni tempore omnique.../...et in accessibilis tuae gloriae qui benedictus es in saecula saeculorum amen.
7. fol. 67-68v: (excerpt from the Divine Liturgy of St. Basil) Oratio magni Basilii ante dormitionem/ Da nobis domine deus dormitum.../...ad laudem benedictionem tui patris et filii et spiritus sancti amen.
8. fol. 68v-72: (excerpt from the Divine Liturgy of St. Basil) Oratio beati Ioannis chrysostomi ante dormitionum/ Domine deus noster Iesu Christe.../...qui te diligentibus preparasti et in quibus glorificatis in secula seculorum amen.
9. fol. 72-73v: (excerpt from the Divine Liturgy of St. Basil) Alia oratio beati Ioannis chrisostomi in communione/ Domine scio me non esse dignum.../... et intercessionibus immaculate matris tuae et cunctorum sanctorum qui tibi ab eterno complacuerunt.
10. fol. 73v-75: (excerpt from the Divine Liturgy of St. Basil) Oratio divi chrisostomi post communionem/ Gratias ago domine iesu christe deus meus quia non repulisti.../...te laudat universa creatura christe deus noster in universa secula seculorum.
11. fol. 75v-77v: (excerpt from the Divine Liturgy of St. Basil) Oratio divi ioannis Damasceni in virginem maria/ O immacula incontaminata.../...per sancto clemente et vivificante spiritu suo nunc et in secula seculorum amen.
12. fol. 77v-79v: 18th-century additions, liturgy for St. Agnellus, in the hand of one Beatrice de Fouar (her signature on 77v), including music on a four-line staff (fol. 78).
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Origin: Written in Italy in the last quarter of the 15th century.
Notes (ownership):
Provenance: Owned in the eighteenth century by one Beatrice de Fouar (her signature on 77v).
Notes (acquisition):
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased by BPL in 1954 from Olschki.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Notes (object):
Secundo folio: ... per caput ipsius recumbentis ...
Collation: Parchment, fol. i (19th-century parchment) + 79 + i (19th-century parchment) ; 1-9⁸ 10⁸⁻¹¹, final leaf cancelled ; vertical catchwords, lower right corner of the last verso of each quire. Modern arabic pencil foliation, upper outer corner of each recto.
Layout: 1 column, 13 lines. Bounding and writing lines in blind or light plummet.
Script: Written in a humanistic bookhand in brown ink with red or blue rubrics.
Decoration: Two- to three-line gold capitals on red and blue with white filigree highlighting throughout, followed by incipits in gold-leaf epigraphic capitals; four four-line historiated initials in gold and colors with full white vine borders on gold and colors with marginal putti, animals and hunting scenes, attributed to Matteo Felice (fl. 1467-93; see Lattanzi): fol. 1: St. Matthew writing at a lectern in an exterior landscape, an angel hovering above. In the outer margin, a peacock; in the lower, two putti hold a green leafy wreath surrounding a fleur-de-lys on a ground of red and green -- fol. 20: St. Mark writing at a desk in a green landscape, a high craggy hill in the background, a lion immediately behind him. In the outer margin, a putto aims an arrow at a buck in the lower margin -- fol. 36: St. Luke seated on the ground, writing on a scroll across his lap, a winged bull lying in front of him. In the outer margin, one putto holds a club aloft, while in the lower margin, another wrestles a snake -- fol. 52v: St. John seated on a green hillside reading, an eagle at the right. In the outer margin, a gesturing putto; in the lower margin, a putto prepares to beat a rabbit with his raised fist.
Binding: 19th-century green morocco, gilt double-fillet borders, spine with gilt-stamped florets in compartments, parchment pastedowns and conjugate flyleaves, edges speckled; housed in custom green woodblock printed paper slipcase, contemporary with binding, shelf number on paper label on front.
Notes (bibliography):
Bibliography: Boston Public Library Quarterly VII (1955): 76; A. D. Lattanzi, "Di alcuni codici miniati attribuibili a Matteo Felice e bottega" in La Bibliofilia LXXV (1973): 1-43, see p. 39 and fig. 20.
Notes (language):
In Latin.
Identifier:
06_01_018690
Call #:
RARE BKS MS q Med.128
MS 1550 (no longer used)
Barcode:
39999091846574