(Q49592)
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Monastery of San Pietro in Savigliano
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New York Academy of Medicine
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Fourteenth century
14. century
1300Gregorian
1400Gregorian
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Extent: ff. 201; parchment; 250 x 190
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Layout: 2 columns of 46 lines
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Script: Gothic in French style (e.g. crossed tironian seven; superscript vertical line for the "qui" abbreviation).
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Decoration: Book headings with 2- or 3-line initials in parted red and blue, and both colors in the flourishing and in the cascade along the left of the text.
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Decoration: Chapter headings with 2-line alternating red and blue initials with filigree in the other color. Paragraph marks in alternating red and blue. Rubrics in red. Running titles across the upper margins alternating red and blue letters/roman numerals.
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Binding: Bound, s. XIXin, in Italian calf; edges of leaves tinted in red.
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Collation beginning at f. 2: 1-4 of 12 leaves; 5 of 10 leaves(ff. 49-58; chapter numbers ok internally but missing its outermost bifolium?); 6-7 of 12 leaves; 8 of 10 leaves(ff. 83-92; chapters are not numbered internally so not readily checkable; same question as well about a missing outer bifolium);
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9-16 of 12 leaves; 17 (12 leaves, but with stitching between 7th and 8th leaves, and with clearly one final stub; was this originally a gathering of 14 leaves?).
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Collation according to the presence of the center stitching of the gathering; there are no catchwords, signatures, quire numbers.
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Large sections of the text heavily annotated along the inner and outer margins with finding devices; occasionally longer notes in the lower margin in many different hands, including some that are certainly by Italians.
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Provenance: In the lower margin of f. 2, the fifteenth-century ownership note of the Benedictines of the Congregation of S. Justina, of the monastery of San Pietro in Savigliano (located in the province of Cuneo, in Piedmont), their ms 64:
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Provenance: "Iste liber est monachorum congregationis sancte Iustine ordinis sancti Benedicti deputatus Monasterio sancti petri de saviliano signatus numero [number added in a different hand:] 64"; this number repeated in the upper outer margin of f. 2.
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Provenance: Modern note in Italian on final flyleaf: "finisce al Libro XVIII cap.<crossed out: cxxxvii> cx e debbono essere cxv; mancano 146 cap, libro XIX." Obtained by the New York Academy of Medicine from the bookselling firm, Antiquariato W. Toscanini, of Milan in 1929.
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26 August 2024
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26 August 2024
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