(Q2693)

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Book of Hours or Psalter
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Bartolomeo Sanvito (1435–1511), of Padua.
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Apparently Otto F. Ege (1888-1951); Ruth E. Adomeit (1910-1996), bequeathed by her to the Lilly Library.
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s. XV(4/4); 1475-1499
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Binding: Not bound.
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Other decoration, One leaf: One heading in gold; one-line versal initials in alternating blue and gold.
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Script, One leaf: Humanistic, some calligraphic ligatures.
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Layout, One leaf: 12 lines, written-space 65 mm. by 43 mm.; written in brown ink.
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Manuscript note: The present leaf is from a manuscript made in Rome in the early 1480s, probably while Sanvito was still working for Cardinal Gonzaga, who might have been its first owner. It was evidently one of the manuscripts broken up by Otto Ege, who gave two leaves to the calligrapher James Hayes in 1948-49. Ege’s source for it is not yet known, except that he assumed it was French...
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Bibliography: De la Mare and Nuvoloni 2009, p. 276, no. 79a.
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One leaf: Recto rather rubbed.
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One leaf: Latin.
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One leaf: The text of the Lilly leaf is psalm 6: 5-11.
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Incipit, One leaf: Gloria patri sancti.
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Explicit, One leaf: meos. discedite a me omnes.
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28 June 2023
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28 June 2023
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