Missal : in Latin

Item Information

Title:
Missal : in Latin
Creator:
Catholic Church
Former owner:
Art ancien S.A.
Date:
[1375–1399]
Format:
Manuscripts
Books
Genre:
Illuminations
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Belgium
Manuscripts, Medieval--Belgium
Missals (Service books)
Gothic scripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Medieval and Early Renaissance Manuscripts (Collection of Distinction)
Places:
Belgium
Extent:
151 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 353 x 250 (252 x 170) mm bound to 39 cm
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Place of origin:
[Flanders]
Language:
Latin
Table of Contents:
1. fol. 1-119v: Temporale.
2. fol. 119v: Office for the Conception of the Virgin, added 15th century (modern transcription laid in)
3. fol. 120v-122: Common of the Mass.
4. fol. 122v: full-page Crucifixion miniature.
5. fol. 123-125v: Canon of the Mass.
6. fol. 125v: added prayers, same hand as found on fol. 119v.
7. fol. 126-151v: Sanctorale (ends imperfectly with St. Sixtus, 6 August)
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Origin: Written in Flanders in the late 14th century (a Flemish origin is indicated by the style of the script and by the orthography, which includes spellings such as the abbreviation "Ew." for "Evangelium" and "Aghatae" for "Agatha").
Notes (ownership):
Provenance: Offered by L'Art Ancien, 1941 (catalog 26, number 26)
Notes (acquisition):
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased from L'Art Ancien in 1949 (catalog 37, number 13)
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Notes (citation):
Bond, W.H. Supplement to the Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, 211-212
Notes (object):
Secundo folio: ... habemus abraham ...
Collation: Parchment, fol. i (modern paper) + 151 + i (modern paper) ; 1⁸ 2⁶ 3-14⁸ 15⁸⁺¹ (fol. 119, the end of the Temporale, is a singleton) 16-19⁸ ; catchwords in extreme lower right corner of every verso. 17th-/18th-century brown ink arabic foliation, each recto, numerous skips and mistakes, so reaches 136 at fol. 151. Foliation skips fol. 119-125 (the Mass) completely, possibly intentionally. Modern arabic pencil foliation added to upper outer corner of each verso, with the designation "r" added to the recto numbers.
Layout: 2 columns, 40 lines. Bounding and writing lines in blind or light plummet, upper and lower writing lines doubled. 4-line square musical notation on fol. 120, 124v and 125.
Script: Written in a northern gothic textualis formata (textus quadratus) with Flemish features, in black ink with red rubrics, rubrication guides in outer margin partially trimmed.
Decoration: 2-line epigraphic capitals throughout alternating red and blue; major feasts and liturgical divisions marked by 4- or 10-line blue and red puzzle initials with red and purple filigree. Full-page crucifixion miniature on fol. 122v, the Virgin Mary as the Mother of Sorrows, John the Evangelist at right, small sun and moon above, border of spindly vines and light red wash cinq-foil leaves (possibly added later). A modern hand has attributed the miniature to "Jean Pucelle" in pencil in the lower margin, a spurious attribution suggested by the 1941 Art Ancien catalogue.
Binding: Modern tan leather binding, smoke damage on covers, spine and block edges, heavy paper pastedowns and flyleaves; title "Missale Romanum" gilt-stamped on red leather spine label, original leather tabs on outer edge marking Quinquagesima, 4th Sunday of Quadragesima, Palm Sunday, Easter, Pentecost, John the Baptist, and fol. 137 (marking the feast day for one of the following: St. Ambrose, Leo, Tiburtius, Vitalis, or Philip & Jacob).
Notes (bibliography):
Bibliography: Ellen M. Oldham, "A Fourteenth-Century French Missal," BPLQ III (1951): 246-247. R. Randall, "Boston Public Library MS 1537" (Cambridge, 1952) (typescript on deposit at BPL, MS 3266).
Notes (language):
In Latin.
Identifier:
06_01_018677
Call #:
RARE BKS MS f Med.109
MS 1537 (no longer used)
Barcode:
39999090789445