(Q2720)
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Antonio Maria de Villafora, documented in Padua from 1469 to 1511.
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Perhaps the Benedictine monastery of Santa Giustina of Padua; price of £24 and date "March 1920" in pencil; C. L. Ricketts; acquired by the Lilly Library with the Ricketts Collection in 1961.
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s. XVI(in); 1500-1515
16. century
1500Gregorian
1515Gregorian
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Binding: Not bound.
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Figurative details, One leaf: Recto with large historiated initial ‘V’ (“Vidi dominum sedentem . . .”), 121 mm. by 100 mm. plus extensions, showing a half-length bearded prophet holding a banderole “GE/REM/IA. P[ROPHETA]”, in colours and burnished gold with leafy extensions into the margin terminating in gold bezants, a panel of coloured foliage at the foot of the page.
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Other decoration, One leaf: Calligraphic capitals with decorative penwork infill and surround.
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Script, One leaf: Gothic Liturgical book hand.
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Music, One leaf: Music in square neumes on 4-line red staves.
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Layout, One leaf: Ruled in brown ink, 6 lines of text. alternating with 6 of music, written-space 402 mm. by 258 mm.
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Manuscript note: The leaf has an old folio number ‘84’ in the upper right corner. Other leaves from the same Antiphoner are in the Free Library of Philadelphia with corresponding folio numbers ‘94’, with Vespers for the Purification, 2 February (Lewis E M 69:19) and ‘178’, with Matins for the commemoration of Saint Paul, 30 June (Lewis E M 69:20).
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Bibliography: Alexander c. 2010, pp. 66-67.
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One leaf: Lilian Armstrong writes of the artist’s style: “Most typical are the saint’s eyes, with their curiously puffy eyelids, and his hair and beard a distinctive mix of pale grey and yellow. Also reminiscent of Antonio Maria’s figures are the saint’s long fingers and the intensity of his gaze”.
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One leaf: Latin.
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One leaf: The initial opens the anitphon for Matins on the Saturday before the fhrist Sunday in November (Isaiah 6:1) The name inscribed on a banderole is Jeremiah, probably in error.
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Explicit, One leaf: Vidi dominum sedentem super solium.
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One leaf: L. Armstrong in Tannis and Thompson 2001, pp.184-86, no. 64.
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28 June 2023
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28 June 2023
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