(Q2549)
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V. M. Voynich (1865-1930), Polish revolutionary and bookseller, who gave it to C. L. Ricketts; acquired by the Lilly Library with the Ricketts Collection in 1961.
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s. XII(3/4); 1150-1175
12. century
1150Gregorian
1175Gregorian
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Binding: Bound in fifteenth-century Italian blind-stamped leather over thin wooden boards sewn on 5 thongs, the sides panelled with a broad frame infilled with multiple impressions of ropework tools, the central compartments with a geometrical design in ropework stamps resembling an 8-pointed star (or two squares at angles to each other), lacking 2 clasps and catches, parchment pastedowns; in...
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Figurative details, ff.1-500v: 83 historiated initials up to the full height of the page (the Genesis initial) but mostly about 8 lines high, in elaborate leafy and animal designs in colours and burnished gold (fols. 2v, 3r, 21r, 35v, 45v, 60r, 73r, 82r, 91v, 93r, 93v, 106v, 116v, 128v, 140r, 151r, 165r, 169r, 174v, 180v, 190r, 194r, 199r, 205r, 215r, 218r, 220r, 222r, 224r, 226v, 229r, 231v...
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Other decoration, ff.1-500v: Headings in red, running-titles in alternating red and blue capitals, chapter initials in red or blue with full-length penwork decoration on most pages in the contrasting color, some larger painted initials in colors on panelled grounds.
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Script, ff.1-500v: Italianate Textura.
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Layout, ff.1-500v: Collation: i#^13# [of 14, lacking i], ii–xiii#^14#, xiv#^8#, xv#^14#, xvi–xvii#^16#, xviii–xxvi#^14#, xxvii#^18#, xxviii–xxxiii#^14#, xxxiv#^9# [of 10, blank x canceled after fol. 472], xxxv–xxxvi#^14#, with traces of catchwords in cartouches (just visible, for example, on fols. 139v, 291v and 488v, ends of quires x, xxi and xxxv); 2 columns, ruled in plummet, 50–51 lines...
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Manuscript note: Some rubbing and lifting of ink (as often with Italian parchment). The manuscript contains evidence of commercial production. Beside a number of the historiated initials are one or more little strokes drawn faintly in plummet, the strokes represent the total number of individual historiated initials in each particular gathering, The marks are clearly connected with payment...
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Bibliography: De Ricci 1935, p. 619; Silver 1991, p. 3, no. 7.
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ff.1-500v: The initial on fol. 254v of Ricketts 12 (marking the opening of Ecclesiasticus) shows a friar in a grey habit, receiving a book from Christ. It may suggest that this manuscript was made for a Franciscan.
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ff.1-500v: Latin.
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28 June 2023
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28 June 2023
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