(Q2612)
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William Bragge (1823-1884); his sale, Sotheby’s, 7 June 1876, lot 237, to Quaritch (his cat. 31, June 1876, no. 87); John Ruskin (1819-1900), inscribed by him to Lawrence Hilliard, Brantwood, 25 January 1881; William K. Bixby (1857-1931); his sale, Anderson, New York, 29 March 1916, lot 743.
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to Gabriel Wells; bought by C. L. Ricketts in 1924 from the estate of the bookseller George D. Smith (d. 1920), and acquired by the Lilly Library with the Ricketts Collection in 1961.
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s. XIV(4/4); 1375-1399
14. century
1375Gregorian
1399Gregorian
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s. XIV(3/4); 1350-1375
14. century
1350Gregorian
1375Gregorian
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Binding: Bound in nineteenth-century Italian calf gilt, spine title-labels in red and green morocco including initials ‘CC’, red marbled endleaves, gilt edges; in a blue cloth case.
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Figurative details, ff. 1-281: 52 historiated initials, mostly 6 lines high, with lush leafy marginal extensions and gold bezants, mostly showing saints or simplified biblical scenes on fols. 8r (two initials, with full border of coloured and gold petals on hairline stems and with a historiated cartouche in lower margin), 17r, 23r, 80r, 84r, 89r, 96r, 107r, 123r, 127r, 138r, 141v, 148v, 171v...
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Other decoration, ff. 1-281: One- and 2-line initials throughout in burnished gold with delicate and elegant penwork in blue or purple.
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Script, ff. 1-281: Gothic Textura.
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Music, ff. 1-281: Music on a 3-line red staves.
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Layout, ff. 1-281: Collation: i#^8# [i and viii blank, foliation omits first leaf ], ii–xii#^10#, xiii#^10# [apparently of 10+1, a single-sheet Canon miniature now lacking after fol. 122], xiv–xxvi#^10#, xxvii#^9# [of 10, x canceled and replaced in the fifteenth century with what are now fols. 266–81], xxviii#^6#, xxix#^8#, with horizontal catchwords, some within decorative penwork cartouches...
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Manuscript note: A Franciscan book, like Lilly Ricketts 9, it is small and comprehensive, suitable for the travelling bag of an itinerant friar.
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Bibliography: De Ricci 1935, p. 627; Dearden 1966, p. 144, no. 48; E. Fry in ‘Catalogue’ 1988, pp. 28-34, no. 6.
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ff. 1-281: The style of illumination does not fit comfortably into any of the mainstream schools of manuscript decoration in late fourteenth-century Italy, and the work may be provincial.
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ff. 1-281: Latin.
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ff. 266-281: Latin.
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ff 1-265: Opens with a Calendar, ungraded, including Saint Francis and his translation, both in red (4 October and 25 May) and Saint Paternianus, also in red (10 July). Saint Anthony "ordinis fratrum minorum" is there (13 June), but in black. The Missal itself opens on fol. 8r, "secundum consuetudinem romane curie" (the Franciscans followed the Use of the Roman Curia), with the first half of...
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28 June 2023
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28 June 2023
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