Single leaf from a 15th-century missal : in Latin

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Title:
Single leaf from a 15th-century missal : in Latin
Title (uniform):
Missal
Description:
... opus deus ut quos ... intercedente beato evasio ... / Barbare virginis/ Me expectaverunt peccatores ... / Sancti nycholay/ Statuit ei dominus ... / ... exaltabur cornu eius. St. Evasius (1 December); St. Barbara (4 December); St. Nicholas (6 December)
Creator:
Catholic Church
Former owner:
Nicolas Rauch S.A.
Date:
[ca. 1450]
Format:
Manuscripts
Genre:
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Missals (Service books)
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Medieval and Early Renaissance Manuscripts (Collection of Distinction)
Places:
France
Extent:
1 leaf : parchment, ill. ; 413 x 284 (295 x 195) mm.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/s4655v51w
Terms of Use:
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No known restrictions on use.
Place of origin:
[France]
Language:
Latin
Notes:
Ms. leaf.
Title devised by cataloger.
Origin: Written in France in the mid-fifteenth century. St. Evasius rarely venerated outside of Lombardy.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Notes (acquisition):
Source of acquisition: Purchased from Nicholas Rauch in 1955.
Notes (citation):
Bond, W.H. Supplement to the Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, p. 217
Notes (object):
Layout: Two columns (each 90 mm wide), 27 lines. Bounding and writing lines in light plummet, bounding lines full-length.
Script: Written in a Gothic bookhand in black ink with red rubrics.
Decoration: Two- or three-line initials throughout in red with blue penwork or vice versa; on the verso, six-line [S] in blue with white filigree highlights in a gold frame, historiated with St. Nicholas, in Bishop's robes with mitre and crozier, resuscitating the three youths who stand in a barrel; half border (full height of the outer margin and width of the outer column) of black tendrils with gold dots and leaves, a few clusters of scrolling acanthus at the corners, and three nobly-gowned women.
Binding: Housed in an oversize folder.
Notes (bibliography):
Bibliography: Netzer, N. ed., Secular/Sacred 11th -- 16th Century Works from the Boston Public Library and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston College, 2006), nr. 56.
Identifier:
06_01_016089-06_01_016090
Call #:
RARE BKS MS pb Med. 152
MS 1577 (no longer used)
Barcode:
39999087024426