Explanatio Psalmorum XII

Item Information

Title:
Explanatio Psalmorum XII
Description:
"Explanatio Psalmorum XII," Ambrose's commentary on Psalms I, XXXV (XXXVI in Hebrew numbering), XXXVI (XXXVII), XXXVII (XXXVIII), XXXVIII (XXXIX), XXXIX (XL), XL (XLI), XLIII (XLIV), XLV (XLVI), XLVII (XLVIII), XLVIII (XLIX), and LXI (LXII).
Creator:
Ambrose, Saint, Bishop of Milan, -397
Former owner:
Barbaro, Francesco, 1390-1454
Former owner:
Barrois, Joseph, approximately 1785-1855
Former owner:
Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of, 1797-1878
Former owner:
Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962
Former owner:
Collegio di San Barnaba (Milan, Italy)
Auctioneer:
Sotheby's (Firm)
Date:
[1400–1450]
Format:
Manuscripts
Books
Genre:
Illuminations
humanistic scripts
Inscriptions
Vellum bindings
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Italy
Manuscripts, Medieval--Italy
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Medieval and Early Renaissance Manuscripts (Collection of Distinction)
Subjects:
Bible. Psalms--Criticism and interpretation
Places:
Italy > Venetan (region) > Venezia (province) > Venice
Extent:
168 leaves : parchment ; 254 x 178 mm (172 x 107 mm), in box 29 cm
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/qj72s7627
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Place of origin:
[Italy]
Language:
Latin
Table of Contents:
1. fol. 1-168v: Ambrose, [Explanatio Psalmorum XII]
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title devised by cataloger.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Origin: Written in Italy in the first half of the fifteenth century.
Notes (ownership):
Provenance: Contemporary ownership inscription of the Venetian patrician Francesco Barbaro (1390-1454) inside front cover: "Iste S. Ambrosius super psalmus est francisci barbari patricii veneti." 17th century inscription on f. 1r: "Colegii S. Barnabae," presumably St. Barnabas in Milan; Barbaro was the Venetian ambassador to Milan in 1446, which may have been when the manuscript came to that city; sold by Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Barrois (1784-1855) to Bertram, the Fourth Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878) in 1849 (n. 88).
Notes (acquisition):
Immediate source of acquisition: Ashburnham sale, Sotheby's London, 10 June 1901, lot 12 (Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts 9202) to Sydney Cockerell for the Boston Public Library (Cockerell's notes on front flyleaf).
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Notes (citation):
Ricci, S. de. Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, I:919
Notes (object):
Secundo folio: ...tis in cordibus vestris...
Collation: Parchment, fol. 168 ; 1-21⁸ ; decorative catchwords in lower center margin of last verso of each quire. Modern arabic pencil foliation, upper outer corner of each page (1r, 1v, etc.).
Script: Written in a humanistic bookhand in black ink with some spaces for rubrics left blank, others filled with 2-line epigraphic capitals in black ink. Spaces left for 3-line initials, some later filled with black epigraphic capitals.
Layout: One column, 32 lines. Ruled in light plummet, some prickings preserved for bounding lines.
Binding: Parchment over boards (possibly re-used, with evidence of previous clasps and tooling), sewn on four split-leather thongs, clasps lacking, 17th-century title on spine "S./Ambrosii/in Psalm" and "manuscr". "S. Ambrosii in Psa." Round green Barrois spine label, "88." Housed in tan cloth clamshell box.
Notes (bibliography):
Bibliography: Zoltan Haraszti, "Medieval Manuscripts in The Library," More Books III (1928): 58.
Notes (language):
In Latin.
Identifier:
06_01_018633
Call #:
RARE BKS MS f Med.9
MS G.38.48 (no longer used)
Barcode:
39999059855161