(Q2621)
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C. L. Ricketts, bought from Sotheran’s, London, in 1912; acquired by the Lilly Library with the Ricketts Collection in 1961.
Q1772 (Deleted Item)
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Thomas Chauncey, obit.
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c.1400
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Binding: Bound in early eighteenth-century English mottled calf, red speckled edges, paper endleaves; in a green cloth case.
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Figurative details, ff.119: 8 large illuminated initials in coloured leafy designs on illuminated panels with three-quarter bar branching borders (the first with a full border), on fols. 7r (psalm 1), 22v (psalm 26), 32v (psalm 38), 42r (psalm 52), 51r (psalm 68), 62r (psalm 80), 72r (psalm 97) and 83r (psalm 109).
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Other decoration, ff.119: Rubrics in red, versal initials in red or blue; 2-line psalm initials in blue with red penwork.
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Script, ff.119: Gothic Textura.
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Layout, ff.119: Collation: i#^7# [first blank (not included in foliation), of 8, a second blank ii canceled], ii–xv#^8# [last blank], with horizontal catchwords mostly in simple cartouches, some contemporary leaf signatures; ruled in brown, apparently in ink, 23 lines, written-space 154 mm. by 98 mm.; written in brown ink.
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Bibliography: De Ricci 1935, p. 622.
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ff.119: A few early additions.
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ff.119: Latin.
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ff.1r-117v: Calendar (fol. 1r), of standard Sarum (southern English) use; the psalms (fol. 7r), canticles (fol. 103v) and litany (fol. 113r), ending on fol. 117r. A few responses from the Office of the Dead are added in a fifteenth-century hand on fols. 117r-v. Various late medieval anniversaries were once entered in black ink in the Calendar but most have been erased: one remains, in red ink...
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28 June 2023
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28 June 2023
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