(Q2648)
Statements
Capitoli della Scuola di Purificatone della Vergine e di Sancto Zenobiot
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Ratification
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Antonio Pierozzi
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Battista di Niccolò da Padova, a Paduan illuminator and fresco painter, a layman (he married Antonia Casini in 1415), who was working in Rome 1432–38 and from the 1440s in Florence, where he died in 1452 (A. D. Bussi in Bollati 2004, pp. 72–74).
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The Scuola di Purificatione della Vergine Maria e di Sancto Zenobio, in Florence (founded 1427, closed c. 1802); Charles Fairfax-Murray (1849-1919), with his booklabel; Charles William Dyson Perrins (1864-1958), with his bookplate and ticket, with numbers ‘36’ and ‘62’; his sale, Sotheby’s, 9 December 1958, lot 18, to Breslauer.
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his cat. 92 (1960), no. 12; Lathrop C. Harper Inc., and acquired by the Lilly Library with the Harper stock, given by Mrs. Juana Mendel in November 1967.
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Saint Antoninus of Florence
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c. 1447
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1448
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Binding: Bound in contemporary thin bevelled wooden boards sewn on 5 thongs, covered with dark brown goatskin blind-stamped with small ropework tools, parchment endleaves, lacking clasps and catches, re-backed, other repairs; in a dark green cloth case.
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Figurative details, ff. 1-40v: 6-line historiated initial on fol. 5v enclosing the badge of the Scuola with the letters ‘P. S. M.’ over ‘Z’ in gold on a blue ground within a circular gold frame within a square; 13-line historiated initial ‘A’ on fol. 1r showing the Virgin and Child in the upper compartment and Saint Zenobius in the lower compartment, the initial in elaborate leafy design in...
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Other decoration, ff. 1-40v: 2- to 3-line initials in red with purple penwork or blue with red penwork.
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Script, ff. 1-40v: Gothic Textura.
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Layout, ff. 1-40v: Collation: i–iv#^10#, with horizontal catchwords; ruled in brown, apparently in ink, 20 lines, written-space 162 mm. by 110 mm.; written in dark brown ink; confirmation by the archbishop of Florence on fol. 36r, later additions from fol. 36v.
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Manuscript note: Contains the autograph of Antonio Pierozzi, canonized as St. Anotoninus of Florence in 1523. A bronze colored silk protective flap, bound in, covers the autograph confirmation on f. 36r. The red wax seal on f. 36r could be the archbishop's seal (Cardinal's hat, three fiocchi (tassels). patriarchal cross in shield, possible gryphon rampant.) Paper seal on f. 48v appears to be...
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ff. 1-40v: The Scuola’s accounts survive in the Archivio di Stato in Florence and include the payments for making this manuscript in 1447, to the scribe, “A Fratte Bartolomeo iscrittore de nostro chapitoli . . .”, and “A Battista miniatore L. una e s. tre dicci . . .sono per miniatura de nostri Chapittoli”, one lira and thirteen sous paid to the miniaturist Battista for the illumination of the...
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ff. 1-40v: Latin.
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f. 36r: Latin.
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ff 1r-54v: The manuscript comprises the rules of the Scuola, in 27 chapters, as revised up to 28 June 1444, and there is no reason to doubt that this is the Scuola’s own official copy.
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Explicit, ff 1r-54v: A laude e onore dello Homnipotentei dio.
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28 June 2023
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28 June 2023
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