(Q20625)
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Monastery Holy Trinity-Champmol
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Saint-Bénigne of Dijon
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Richardson, Thomas F.
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Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932
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Lewis, Anne Baker
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Extent: iii+18+iv; 335 x 230 mm bound to 349 x 240 mm; parchment
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The two preserved calendar leaves contain the obituaries of Margaret, Duchess of Burgundy (January 23, 1423), and Isabella, wife of Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy (December 16, 1471), suggests the manuscript was executed in Burgundy sometime after 1471 (Wolf); decorative initials bear a strong similarity to those in a Gradual currently housed at the Pierpont Morgan Library (Ms M.115) from...
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Binding: Seventeenth-century red morocco, gilt borders around sides, rebacked
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Layout: No prickings visible; four-line staves ruled in red; eight staves per page; dark crayon ruling; forty-nine large penwork inhabited initials (full stave +); fifteen alternating blue and red large pen-flourished initials (full stave +); small alternating blue and red pen-flourished initials throughout, extend less than one stave; written area: 240 x 140 mm
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Script: Gothic--bookhand
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Decoration: Various initials on every page, including large black penwork initials heightened in green, yellow, and pink; initials decorated with foliage and ribbon designs; and initials inhabited with animals, grotesques, and human caricatures; large and small pen-flourished initials, alternating blue and red
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Related resource: De Ricci, Seymour, with the assistance of W. J. Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, vol. 2 (New York,: H. W. Wilson, 1935-40), pp. 2032-33, no. 46.
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Related resource: Supplement to the Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, originated by C. U. Faye, continued and edited by W. H. Bond (New York: The Bibliographical Society of America, 1962), p. 453, no. 46.
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Related resource: Free Library of Philadelphia, A Descriptive Catalogue of the John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts in the Free Library of Philadelphia, compiled by Edwin Wolf, 2nd, with an introduction by Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach (Philadelphia: The Free Library, 1937), pp. 11-12, no. 8.
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Related resource: Free Library of Philadelphia. Saints, Scribes, and Scholars: An Exhibition of Illuminated Manuscripts and Early Printed Books from the Collections of the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia. Compiled by Satoko I. Parker, Walter A. Frankel, and Marie E. Korey (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1988), p. 11.
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Provenance: Monastery Holy Trinity-Champmol; Saint-Bénigne of Dijon; Thomas F. Richardson, Boston, his sale 1919, no. 46; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
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Contributor: Diane Biunno
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Cataloger: Dot Porter
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Funder: Council on Library and Information Resources
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4 December 2023
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4 December 2023
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