Italian religious miscellany. (DS1468) (Q8814)

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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from University of Pennsylvania (9915808633503681, Oversize Ms. Codex 255)
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Italian religious miscellany. (DS1468)
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from University of Pennsylvania (9915808633503681, Oversize Ms. Codex 255)

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    Italian religious miscellany.
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    Hagiographies (works)
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    Poems
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    Manuscripts, Italian
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    Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint--Legends
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    Religious poetry, Italian--To 1500
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    To 1500
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    Extent: 94 leaves : paper ; 283 x 201 (207 x 150) mm bound to 292 x 202 mm
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    Foliation: Paper, 94; [1-94]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Traces of a near-contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto, mostly trimmed away.
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    Origin: Written in northern Italy, based on orthography and early provenance in Verona (f. 94v), in 1464 (f.1r) and mostly in 1473 or later (f. 2r).
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    Binding: Contemporary blind-stamped brown calf over wooden boards; five brass bosses on each cover (one missing, upper cover, lower left corner); two clasps and catches, engraved and stamped IHS. Spine splitting. A few wormholes. Various stains and smudges.
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    Ms. codex.
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    Layout: Written in 2 columns of 34 lines; ruled in lead and ink.
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    Decoration: 5-line red initial with blue penwork ornamentation (f. 2r, 65r), 2-line blue initial with red penwork ornamentation (f. 84), rubrics in red, with alternating red and blue initials, and capitals and Gothic incipits touched with yellow; manicule (f. 63r).
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    Script: Written in a formal book script (f. 1r-1v) by one hand that breaks off abruptly, with the text beginning again in a later semi-cursive humanistic script by a second hand. Works 2-6 begin with a few words in a larger, Gothic script. The sixth work has many corrections in another hand.
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    Appears in Maggs Bros. catalog 542 (1930), no. 180a, and catalog 687 (March 1940), no. 239.
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    Formerly owned by the Monastero di Santo Spirito of Verona (inscription, f. 94v).
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    Sold by Laurence Witten, 1955.
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    19 September 2023
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    19 September 2023
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