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Though illuminated in Flanders (possibly Bruges) in the last quarter of the 15th century, this manuscript was made for the use of a patron in the Champagne region in northeast France. The calendar includes St. Desiderius of Langres (23 May) and Nicasius of Reims (14 December, in red) as well as Arnulphus of Metz (16 August). The final two Saints honored in the suffrages, St. Onuphrius and St. Eularia (presumably actually St. Eulalia, or Eulalie), each have a connection to this region.
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- Ms. codex.
- In Latin.
- Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
- Collation: Parchment, fol. i (current pastedown) + 205 ; 1⁶ (first leaf is pastedown) 2⁶⁺¹ (fol. 6 is singleton) 3-25⁸ ; some signatures preserved in brown cursive in the lower right corner, e.g. fol. 73. Catchwords in brown cursive, lower right last verso of most quires. Modern pencil foliation in arabic numerals.
- Layout: Single column, 19 lines. Bounding lines in red plummet, full-length top to bottom.
- Script: Written in a gothic textualis formata in black ink with red rubrics.
- Decoration: Each suffrage begins with a seven-line initial in gold and colors with 3/4 border of scrolling acanthus with flowers on gold or colors. Initials historiated as follows: fol. 154, 154v, 155, 155v, 156, 157, 157v, 158, 158v, 162, 174, 184, 194. One- to two-line initials throughout in lavender with white filigree on red with gold background, or vice versa. Calendar: borders, zodiac, and labors in gold "grisaille," with hunters and birds in margin.
- Binding: Late 19th-century red velvet over pasteboards, heavily rubbed and worn. Parchment pastedowns front and back, all edges gilt. Housed in a gilt-fillet red morocco case, spine gilt-stamped in compartments, lined with red watered silk.
- Origin: Illuminated in Flanders (possibly Bruges) in the last quarter of the 15th century for the use of a patron in the Champagne region in Northeast France.
- Provenance: Pencil notes in Flemish, front pastedown and flyleaf.
- Immediate source of acquisition: Bought from Quaritch, December 1939 (see tipped-in description on front flyleaf, from Catalogue of Illuminated and Other Mss, 1931, no. 49).
- Call number: MS q Med.88.
- Former call number: MS 1515.
- Bibliography: Nancy Netzer, ed., Secular/Sacred 11th-16th Century Works from the Boston Public Library and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston College, 2006), no. 11; W.J. Coe, "A Flemish Book of Hours," BPL Quarterly III (Jan. 1951): 35-43.
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- Bond, W.H. Supplement to the Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, 208
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- [Belgium], [between 1475 and 1499]
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