(Q45719)
Statements
Breviary
0 references
Golit͡syn, Mikhail, kni͡azʹ
0 references
Golowkin, Alexis de, Count
0 references
Newcastle, Henry Pelham Archibald Douglas Pelham-Clinton, 7th Duke of, 1864-1928
0 references
Manuscripts, Medieval--Italy--1450-1500
0 references
ca. 1480
15. century
1480Gregorian
1480Gregorian
0 references
Extent: 515 leaves, bound : vellum ; 30 cm.
0 references
Written in a gothic rotunda hand in two columns. Initials are variously red, blue, or gold, with elaborate pen-work decoration extending between columns and in all the margins.
0 references
There are 4 painted borders (ff. 8r, 215r, 269r, 484r), and 103 historiated initials.
0 references
Illuminated by two different artists, one named Petrus, the other the Douce Master. Both worked in Padua, probably the place of writing of this ms. (Armstrong, differing from previous scholars who associated it with the Certosa monastery in Ferrara).
0 references
Bound in early 19th-century straight-grain red morocco, gilt.
0 references
In a slipcase, 31 cm.
0 references
Comte Alexis de Golowkin (bookplate); Mikhail Golit︠s︡yn (his sale, Paris, 3 Mar. 1825, lot 10); Southgate sale (London, 6 Nov. 1826, lot 2843); Duke of Newcastle (Clumber sale, London, Sotheby's, 6 Dec. 1937, III, lot 939).
0 references
Gift of Philip Hofer in honor of Thomas Stilwell Lamont, 1967
0 references
23 July 2024
0 references
23 July 2024
0 references