(Q43824)
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Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229-1298
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Grotesques--France--13th century
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Miniatures (Painting)--France--13th century
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Illuminations (paintings)--France--13th century
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Christian saints--Biography--Early works to 1800
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Christian saints--Legends--Early works to 1800
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between 1285 and 1299
13. century
1285Gregorian
1299Gregorian
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Extent: ff. 164 : parchment ; 247 x 350 mm
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Jacobus de Voragine's Legenda aurea written in France, perhaps in Paris, during the next to the last decade of the thirteenth century. Manuscript in England by the third or certainly the last quarter of the fourteenth century, to judge by the script of the note added on f. 11v, correcting the king's name from "Edmundus" to "Edwardus."
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Span folios: ff. 1-164v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 112(-1, 2, 3; this last now f. 164) 212 312(-1, 10, 11) 412(-1, 5, 11) 512(-8) 612(-1; note that the 2nd, 3rd, 9th and 10th leaves-ff. 52, 53, 58, 59-are singletons, their conjuncts having evidently been cancelled, since the text runs continuously) 712(-6) 812(-4) 912(-4, 5) 1012 1112(-2, no text missing) 1212(-7) 13-1512 + one leaf (the...
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Decoration: Extensively illuminated with 135 miniatures, usually 16 lines in height and width of 1 column (approximately 67 x 67 mm.). Written instructions to the illuminator are present for approximately one third of the miniatures; they tend to be more complex and closer to the text than the resulting miniature. Rudimentary sketches, or evidence of sketches, for the miniatures occur in about...
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Other Decoration: Major initials, 9- to 7-line, in dull pink or blue, patterned in white against a cusped ground of the other color, infilling in a darker shade of the same color as the initial, with grotesque or leaf forms decorated with burnished gold, and marginal extensions. Initials, 4-line, to introduce the Etymologia of similar style; secondary initials, 2-line, alternating red and blue...
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Carefully corrected throughout by the scribe of the text, corrections in yellow boxes. Some marginalia in various hands up to 16th century.
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Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 8/2/2012.
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A modern note on f. i states that the manuscript came from Fountains Abbey, Yorkshire; rejected by Ker, MLGB, 89. Belonged to Sir Henry Ingilby, Bart., of Ripley Castle, Yorkshire and later to Lt. Col. Sir William Henry Ingilby, Bart. (1874-1950); his sale, Sotheby's, 21 October 1920, lot 172 to Sabin; at this point the current f. 164 began the volume. Purchased by the Huntington Library from...
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22 July 2024
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22 July 2024
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