La regla de las hermanas de la horden de Sancta Clara

Item Information

Title:
La regla de las hermanas de la horden de Sancta Clara
Author:
Clare, of Assisi, Saint, 1194-1253
Former owner:
Poor Clares
Former owner:
Libreria antiquaria Mediolanum
Date:
[ca. 1500]
Format:
Manuscripts
Books
Genre:
Illuminations
Gothic scripts
Inscriptions
Goatskin bindings
Silver clasp plates
Manuscripts, Medieval--Spain
Manuscripts, Spanish--Spain
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Medieval and Early Renaissance Manuscripts (Collection of Distinction)
Subjects:
Poor Clares--Early works to 1800
Poor Clares--Manuscripts
Places:
Spain
Extent:
38 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 260 x 185 (187 x 130) mm bound to 27 cm, in box 30 cm
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/k643h202c
Terms of Use:
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No known restrictions on use.
Place of origin:
[Spain]
Language:
Spanish
Table of Contents:
1. fol. 1: blank.
2. fol. 1v-4: Bull of Pope Urban IV, Urbano Obispo siervo de los siervos.../la qual regal es tal.
3. fol. 4v-34: Rule of the Order of St. Clare, in Spanish, Enel nombre des señor. Comienca la regal de las hermanas de la horden de sancta clara./Todas aquellas.../...en el año tercero de nostro pontificado.
4. fol. 34v: blank.
5. fol. i (Inside rear cover (paper pastedown): Novice's oath, Io, Soror N.../...ni violencia algurra.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title from opening rubric on fol. 4.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based primarily on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Origin: The Rule of the Order of St. Clare, written for the use of a community of Poor Clares in Spain.
Notes (acquisition):
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased in 1955 from Libreria Antiquaria Mediolanum, Milan.
Notes (citation):
Bond, W.H. Supplement to the Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, 216
Notes (object):
Secundo folio: ...dicion. La bien...
Collation: Parchment, fol. i (contemporary parchment free endpaper, conjugate to pastedown under paper) + 34 + i (contemporary parchment free endpaper, conjugate to pastedown under paper) ; 1-4⁸ 5² ; catchwords in lower center margin of final verso of each quire. Modern arabic pencil foliation, upper outer corner of each page.
Layout: Single column, 20 lines. Bounding and writing lines in brown plummet.
Script: Written in a Spanish gothic rotunda in black ink with red rubrics.
Decoration: 3-line initials throughout alternating blue filled with red on gold ink, or gold ink filled with red or blue on blue or red, twenty-eight in all. Opening three-quarter page miniature on fol. 1v of St. Clare standing in a walled courtyard holding a palm frond and displaying a host monstrance, with a deep landscape visible behind her, a city in the background at the right. Full border of trompe-l'oeuil scroll work, acanthus, birds, flowers and insects in colors on gold, "IHS" in a roundel at the top.
Binding: 16th-century black blind-tooled goatskin over boards, central panel gilt-stamped "YHS" with corner florets, front and back, hasps intact, lacking clasp bands, hinges worn, original blank parchment pastedowns (under contemporary paper pastedowns) with conjugate free endleaves.
Notes (bibliography):
Bibliography: BPL Quarterly IX (1957): 64.
Notes (language):
In Spanish.
Identifier:
06_01_018700
Call #:
RARE BKS MS f Med.140
MS 1565 (no longer used)
Barcode:
39999090789502