(Q2498)
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Corbolinus of Pistoia, close to
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C. L. Ricketts; acquired by the Lilly Library with the Ricketts Collection in 1961.
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s. XII(2/4); 1125-1150
12. century
1125Gregorian
1150Gregorian
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Binding: Not bound.
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Other decoration, One cutting: Characteristic Tuscan style plant stems left white on coloured grounds within initials; headings in black or red uncials; three large decorated initials, most of ‘I’ and ‘B’ on recto and ‘A’ on verso in colours with decorative infill, opening letters of text in decorative capitals.
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Script, One cutting: Minuscule.
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Layout, One cutting: Ruled in blind, most of 22 lines (of probably twice that, with loss of text above and below the cutting), ruled in plummet,each column 105 mm. wide with 33 mm. between columns.
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Manuscript note: Formerly used as a flyleaf in a binding, with a horizontal crease a few mm. from the upper edge.
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One cutting: The cutting is very closely related to a group of manuscripts made in Florence around 1130–60, described by Knut Berg in 1968.
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One cutting: Latin.
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One cutting: The piece has the two prologues to the Apocalypse, "Iohannes apostolus" (Stegmüller no. 834), and "Incipit alius prologus, Beatus Iohannes" (Stegmüller no. 831) to its end on the verso, the heading,"Incipit liber apocalipsis iohannis apostoli", and the first three words of the Apocalypse, or book of Revelation.
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28 June 2023
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28 June 2023
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