(Q50474)
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Leslie Hindman
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Chicester Cathedral
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ca. 1475-1500
15. century
1475Gregorian
1500Gregorian
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Extent: fols. 1; membrane; 274 x 198 (164 x 105)
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Layout: 1 column, 12 lines
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Decoration: Elaborate full borders on fol. 284.1 consisting of blue, red, pink, grey, and green acanthus leaves, some with gold highlights. Large 5-line initial "I" in burnished gold on pink and blue grounds with white wash highlights
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Ruled in brown ink
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Bifolium
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Provenance: OSU Bifol sold by Leslie Hindman auctions (Chicago, IL) on 5/5/2016, lot 396
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Provenance: Original codex sold by Sotheby's, 1 July 1938, lot 528
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Provenance: Chichester Cathedral, England
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Provenance: Another bifolium sold at Skinner on 7/23/2019, part of lot 128; this bifolium includes the reference to the feast of the translation of St. Richard of Chichester
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Original manuscript apparently written for use at Chichester Cathedral as indicated by an inscrition on fol. 44: "In festo sactae translacionis patroni nostri sancti Richardi episcope et confessoris." This is St. Richard of Wych/Chichester (1197-1253), canonized in 1262 and buried in the cathedral
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Incipit: …tum ; viderunt iuvenem / sedentem in dextris
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Explicit: Et surgentes eadem hora
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Readings from Mark 16:5-7 for Easter Sunday and Luke 24:13-33 for the Monday after Easter
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26 August 2024
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26 August 2024
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