(Q2528)
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C. L. Ricketts, and acquired by the Lilly Library with the Ricketts Collection in 1961.
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s. XII(2); 1150-1199
12. century
1150Gregorian
1199Gregorian
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Binding: Not bound.
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Figurative details, One cutting: Large historiated initial ‘Q’, 88 mm. by 103 mm., painted in colours and burnished gold enclosing a saint seated at a lectern, a dragon forming the initial’s descender, opening words “[Q]uod fuit” in a vertical line of gold capitals to the right, all within a gold border outlined in green.
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Other decoration, One cutting: 2-line heading in red, recto with one capital touched in red and part of an initial in blue.
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Script, One cutting: Gothic Textura.
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Layout, One cutting: Part of one column (doubtless of two), ruled in plummet, 13 lines on recto, column width 100 mm.
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Manuscript note: Both the script and the decoration are close in style to the Capucins’ Bible (Paris, BnF, mss lat. 16743-46) and the Manerius Bible (Paris, Bibliothèque de Ste-Geneviève mss 8-10), both made probably in Champagne, perhaps in Troyes (Cahn 1996, II, pp. 96-98, no. 79, and pp. 99-102, no. 81). The figure of Saint John here has a close parallel with a man in identical pose in the...
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One cutting: Latin.
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One cutting: Recto shows II Peter 3: 14-17, a few lines from the end of the epistle (traces of a red explicit are visible at the lower right). Typical incipt of John I is "Quod fuit ab initio".
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Explicit, One cutting: Quod fuit ab initio.
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28 June 2023
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28 June 2023
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