(Q2675)
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Joachinus de Gigantibus, possibly
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Giulantonio di Acquaviva, duke of Atri 1464-81, or possibly his young son, Andrea Matteo Acquaviva (1458-1529), with their arms on fol. 1r; Gilhofer and Ranschburg, cat. 265 (1936), no. 12a; evidently confiscated by the Nazis, with the purple stamp of the Zentralstelle für Denkmalschutz dated 26.III.37 inside the lower cover; apparently returned.
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A. Rosenthal, cat. 1 (1939), no. 21; Reichner cat. 2 (1940), no. 113; Lathrop Harper, cat. 3 (1953), no. 72; George A. Poole, bought from Harper in 1955, and acquired by the Lilly Library with the Poole Collection in 1958.
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Pompeius Trogus, extracted author
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s. XV(3/4); 1450-1475
15. century
1450Gregorian
1475Gregorian
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Binding: Contemporary binding of thin wooden boards sewn on 4 double thongs, covered with brown leather (probably goatskin) blind ruled with treble lines into concentric frames stamped with small ropework tools and a square leafy stamp, stubs (only) of 4 clasp-straps in green silk secured by 3 foliate pins on the edges of the lower cover once fitting over metal trefoliate catches still on the...
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Figurative details, ff. 1r-164: 5-line white-vine illuminated initial on fol. 1r with three-quarter white-vine border enclosing a coat-of-arms within a wreath.
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Other decoration, ff. 1r-164: Some 2-line initials in blue.
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Script, ff. 1r-164: Humanistic Cursive Book Hand.
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Layout, ff. 1r-164: Collation: i–xvi#^10#, xvii#^4#, with horizontal catchwords; ruled (the bounding-lines at least) in blind, 29 lines, written-space 162 mm. by 82 mm.; written in dark brown ink, spaces left blank for headings.
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Bibliography: Faye and Bond 1962, p. 178.
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ff. 1r-164: The illuminated border may be by Joachinus de Gigantibus, who worked both in Rome and Naples (cf. esp. Pächt and Alexander 1970, pl. XXXIII, no. 355). The elaborate arms in the lower border of fol. 1r occur also in exactly the same form in a manuscript of Livy, Holkham Hall, MS 346 (Hassall 1970, pl. 117; Mortlock 2006, p. 59, pl. 26). The arms are identified as those of the...
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ff. 1r-164: Latin.
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ff. 1-163r: The opening initial ‘Q’ is an error for ‘C’, perhaps because the illuminator misunderstood the flourished final downstroke of Cumand read the word as Quis.
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Incipit, ff. 1-163r: in formam provincie redegit, F-I-N-I-S.
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Explicit, ff. 1-163r: Qum multi ex Romanis etiam consularis.
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ff. 1r-164: Thanks to Suzanne Reynolds, who is cataloging the mss at Holkham and identified the arms.
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28 June 2023
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28 June 2023
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