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Guiniforte da Vimercate, Basilius de Gallis
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Possibly owned by the renaissance writing-master Francesco Alunno (c. 1500-1556), of Ferrara, and probably acquired by Canon Giuseppe Antonelli (1803-1881), librarian of the Biblioteca comunale of Ferrara, with the patternbooks of Alunno.
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consigned, with one of the Alunno pattern-books, to Sotheby’s, 25 June 1867, among "other properties" added to the sale of Sir Thomas Gage (who did not own this manuscript, despite what is generally said), lot 457, £52. 10s. to Ellis; Quaritch, General Catalogue, 1868, p. 1080; William H. Crawford (1812-1888), of Lakelands, Blackrock, Cork, with his bookplate inside lower cover.
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his sale, Sotheby’s, 12 March 1891, lot 3248; Robert Hoe (1839-1909), of New York, with his leather booklabel, his by 1892, when it was exhibited at the Grolier Club; his sale, Anderson, New York, 24 April 1911, lot 2182, to G. D. Smith, for C. L. Ricketts; acquired by the Lilly Library with the Ricketts Collection in 1961.
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Guiniforte da Vimercate, Basilius de Gallis
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1450
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Binding: Bound in old (perhaps early nineteenth-century) parchment over pasteboards, paper endleaves; in a green cloth case.
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Other decoration, ff. 19: fol. 1r, partial alphabet ‘A’–‘F’, red or blue initials with penwork in purple or red; fol. 1v, small decorated alphabet ‘A’–‘X’, at foot of page, “YZ AMEN VIRGO DEI”, similar but smaller; fol. 2r, partial alphabet ‘A’–‘I’, similar but different penwork; fol. 2v blank; fol. 3r, partial alphabet ‘A’–‘H’, elaborate red or blue initials with extensive penwork in red and...
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Layout, ff. 19: Collation: i#^8, iii#^7# [of 8, lacking viii, after fol. 15], iii#^4# [of 6, lacking iv–v, after fol. 18].
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Manuscript note: An illuminator’s working pattern-book, comprises a series of exquisite specimen alphabets and decorated initials, with elaborate infilling and sample borders in penwork in coloured inks with heightening in gold.
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Bibliography: Grolier Club 1892, p. 15, no. 34; Bierstadt 1895, p. 24; De Ricci 1935, p. 655; Steinberg 1942-43, p. 193, no. 9; Padovani 1954, pp. 583 and 591-92; Miner 1965, pp. 54 and 59, no. 38, with plate; Pächt and Alexander 1970, p. 25; Drogin 1980, p. 147, pl. 125; Kristeller 1990, p. 220; Alexander 1992, p. 175, n. 34; Scheller 1995, pp. 85-87, fig. 4, and p. 254; Elen 1995, pp...
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ff. 19: The manuscript was painted by Guiniforte da Vimercate mostly on the rectos only of fols. 1-15 (the first two quires) and probably on fol. 19v. A second artist, who signs himself Basilius de Gallis (fol. 16v), supplied initials on fols. 16v, 17r, 18r and 19r (the latter perhaps left unfinished, and completed later). Probably in the early sixteenth century, a much less competent...
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ff. 19: Latin.
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28 June 2023
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28 June 2023
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