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Master of the Cypresses, in the style of
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Quaritch, Handlist of Books offered for Sale by Bernard Quaritch Ltd., of 11 Grafton Street, London, W.1, whose representative, Mr. F. S. Ferguson, will have them on view at the Vanderbilt Hotel, Park Avenue, New York, towards the end of February, 1923, and for some weeks thereafter, 1923, no. 26; bought by C. L. Ricketts, and acquired by the Lilly Library with the Ricketts Collection in 1961.
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s. XV(2); 1450-1499
15. century
1450Gregorian
1499Gregorian
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Binding: Bound in late seventeenth-century red morocco, gilt edges, spine gilt, marbled pastedowns, paper flyleaves; in a blue-grey cloth case.
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Figurative details, ff. 1-366: 3 historiated initials, showing Pentecost (fol. cliv verso, 5-line), the Crucifixion (fol. ccvi verso, 6-line) and Saint Stephen (fol. cclvi verso, 4-line).
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Other decoration, ff. 1-366: Rubrics in red; 2-line initials throughout in alternating blue with red penwork and red with purple penwork; many (Ricketts counted 68) large illuminated initials with fulllength bar borders sprouting into elaborate sprays of coloured and gold foliage in the upper and lower margins.
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Script, ff. 1-366: Liturgical textura.
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Layout, ff. 1-366: Collation: early flyleaf + i–ii#^4# [both added c. 1500], iii#^6+1# [last leaf added], iv#^10#, v#^9# [of 10, lacking iv, once foliated ‘xiv’], vi–xvi#^10#, xvii#^9# [of 10, lacking iv, once foliated ‘cxxxiv’], xviii–xxii#^10#, xxiii#^13# [text complete but perhaps of 14, with a blank canceled after ‘cxci’], xxiv#^10#, xxv#^2#, xxvi– xxxiv#^10#, xxxv#^9# [of 10, lacking ix...
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Bibliography: de Ricci 1935, p. 628.
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ff. 1-366: The historiated initials are in the general style of the Master of the Cypresses, who was working in Seville in the 1430s, but the borders, with their lush scrolls and little naked men place the volume into the mid-century or into the third quarter: compare the borders by Jorge Inglés, c. 1455, in Harvard, Houghton Library, fMS Typ. 195 (Wieck 1983, pp. 98–99, no. 48).
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ff. 1-366: Latin.
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ff. 1-366: Rubric on fol. cclvi verso ‘according to the custom of the church of Seville’. The flyleaf (fol. 1r in the pencil numbering) is inscribed in a hand probably of the eighteenth century, missal[e] hispalens[is], n.6 Seville Missal. The text opens at the beginning of the third gathering (no medieval foliation, fol. 10r in modern pencil numbering), with a Calendar, graded up to 9...
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28 June 2023
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28 June 2023
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