(Q21243)

Several obits on rear pastedown: Obit i[n]noce[n]ci II xii die septe[m]br[i] a[n]no d[omi]ni mccclxii; obiit petris Cardinalis hispanie . . . mcclxxiiii; obit nepos [?] domini

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Binding: Fourteenth- or fifteenth-century Spanish brown calf with blind tooling; spine damaged at head and tail; remnants of two clasps

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Layout: Written in two columns of fifty-one lines; ruled in lead with vertical bounding lines; edges trimmed; written area: 120 x 83 mm

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Script: Gothic--textualis

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Decoration: Nine historiated initials similar to the work of the Johannes Grusch atelier in Paris, at the beginning of Genesis (fol. 3v), Psalms (fol. 184v), Proverbs (fol. 204v), Isaiah (fol. 234r), Hosea (fol. 294v), Maccabees I (fol. 310v), Matthew (fol. 328r), Romans (fol. 365r), and Acts (fol. 387v); added illustrations by Spanish hands of episodes from the Infancy Cycle in the...

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Related resource: Branner, Robert, "The Johannes Grusch Atelier and the Continental Origins of the William of Devon Painter," Art Bulletin 54, no. 1 (March 1972), pp. 24-30.

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Related resource: Branner, Robert, Manuscript Painting in Paris During the Reign of Saint Louis: A Study of Styles, California Studies in the History of Art 18 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977), pp. 82-86, fig. 216.

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Provenance: Johannes Patou, Cambrai? (Johannes Patou written five times in various hands on the flyleaf verso; fol. 204v, at the end of the Psalms: Joannes patou me ex urbe opule[n]tissima (trecis?) Cameracum (Cambrai) transtulit; signature, fol. 445v); Diego Alphonso, Spain (fourteenth or fifteenth century, signature, fol. 445v) ; purchased by the Free Library from Harry Levinson (Beverly...

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acknowledgements

Contributor: Diane Biunno

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Cataloger: Amey Hutchins

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Funder: Council on Library and Information Resources

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4 December 2023

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