(Q20622)
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Bragge, William, 1823-1884
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Walker, T. Shadford
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Sessler, Charles
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Lewis, John Frederick
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Lewis, Anne Baker
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1505-1515
16. century
1505Gregorian
1515Gregorian
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Extent: 141; 183 x 125 mm bound to 189 x 132 mm; parchment
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A related manuscript is the Poissy Antiphonal in Melbourne, State Library of Victoria, MS 096.1 R66A; see also Christie's, London, Valuable Printed Books & Manuscripts, incl. Natural History, 19 November 2003, lot 27 (Processional for the Use of the Dominican Sisters of St Louis, Poissy); and Christie's, London, Yates, Thompson and Bright: A Family of Bibliophiles, 16 July 2014, lot 25...
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Binding: Seventeenth-century, French, olive morocco with gilt-wreaths on covers, gilt rosettes on spine, gilt edges
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Layout: One column of twenty-one lines, ruled in red ink; square musical notation on four-line staves in red ink; written area: 102 x 62 mm
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Script: Gothic--textualis quadrata
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Decoration: Nine small square miniatures (eight-nine lines) within text block enclosed by full foliate border inhabited by insects or birds, three-sided spray borders inhabited by birds, insects, and frogs throughout, small decorated initials (one-to-four lines) throughout, and decorated line endings throughout, capitals highlighted in yellow ink; gold leaf or paint used in miniatures...
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Related resource: Burlington Fine Arts Club, Illuminated Manuscripts Catalogue (London: Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1874), p. 6, cat. 30.
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Related resource: Liverpool art club, Exhibition of illuminated manuscripts (Liverpool: Art Club, 1876), cat. 56.
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Related resource: De Ricci, Seymour, with the assistance of W.J. Wilson, Census of medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, vol. 2 (New York: H.W. Wilson, 1935-40), p. 2032, no. 45.
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Related resource: Free Library of Philadelphia, A Descriptive Catalogue of the John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts in the Free Library of Philadelphia, compiled by Edwin Wolf, 2nd, with an introduction by Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach (Philadelphia: The Library, 1937), p. 10, no. 7.
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Related resource: Huglo, Michel, "Les processionnaux de Poissy," in Rituels: Mélanges offerts à Pierre-Marie Gy, ed. Paul de Clerck and Eric Palazzo (Paris: Éditions du Cerf, 1990), p. 345 (article pp. 339-46).
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Related resource: Naughton, Joan, "Manuscripts from the Dominican monastery of Saint-Louis de Poissy" (PhD diss., Department of Fine Arts, University of Melbourne, 1995), p. 281, figs. 100, 105, 116b, 121, 131
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Related resource: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Leaves of Gold: Manuscript Illumination from Philadelphia Collections, edited by James R. Tanis (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2001), pp. 134-136. no. 45.
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Related resource: New York, New York Public Library, The Splendor of the Word: Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts at the New York Public Library, edited by Jonathan J.G. Alexander, James H. Marrow, and Lucy Freeman Sandler (New York: New York Public Library and Harvey Miller Publishers, 2005), p. 220 n.3.
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Related resource: Stoneman, William P., "The Linked Collections of William Bragge (1823–1884) of Birmingham and Dr. Thomas Shadford Walker (1834–1885) of Liverpool," Manuscript Studies 1, no. 2 (2016), pp. 271-72 (article pp. 263-72).
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Provenance: Dominican house at Poissy, France, sixteenth century; old inventory mark: "N. 67"; William Bragge collection (identified as such in 1874 Burlington Fine Arts Club exhibition); T. Shadford Walker Collection (identified as such in 1876 Liverpool Art Club exhibition); Bragge sale, Sotheby's, London, June 7 1876, lot 9; Quaritch (booksellers), London (Catalogue 31, June 30, 1876, cat...
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Contributor: Diane Biunno
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Cataloger: Amey Hutchins
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Cataloger: Dot Porter
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Cataloger: Nicholas Herman
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Funder: Council on Library and Information Resources
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4 December 2023
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4 December 2023
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