Codicology of Tufts University Ms. 7

Tufts University Ms. 7: Passio Domini nostri Ihesu Christi, is a 15^th Century Italian collection of Gospel sequences suited to use in private devotion.

The book consists of 34 folios, or 68 pages, of parchment. The text is in a humanistic miniscule. Examples of humanist scribal practice include the use of ampersands, ligatures, and white vine initials. Rubrics to the four Gospels are in blue and gold, and there are three-line initials of burnished gold throughout the text.

In the 19^th Century the book was owned by the English actress Ellen Terry. It was donated to Tufts by Walter F. Welch, Jr., Class of 1928, a gift acknowledged on June 16, 1965.