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Master of the Landriani Hours
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Written in 1505 for Giovanni Pietro Visconti (1478-1515), provost of Milan cathedral (see below); Oliver Rogers Barrett (1873-1950), Chicago attorney, who gave it to C. L. Ricketts in 1918; acquired by the Lilly Library with the Ricketts Collection in 1961.
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Giovanni Pietro Visconti, owner, canon and later provost of Milan cathedral
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1505
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Binding: Bound in eighteenth-century Italian sheep gilt, parchment endleaves, repaired; in a green cloth case.
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Figurative details, ff. 1-212: Two 5-line historiated initials, showing Saint Ambrose (fol. 63r) and a skull (fol. 164r); elaborate double-page opening on fols. 12v–13r with, on the left, a miniature of the Nativity (98 mm. by 54 mm.) in a landscape above a classical tablet “Quem virgo concepit, virgo peperit, virgo post partum quem genuit adoravit” (part of the responses for the feast of the...
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Other decoration, ff. 1-212: Rubrics in pale red; 2-line initials throughout in alternating red and green.
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Script, ff. 1-212: Humanistic; Minuscule.
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Layout, ff. 1-212: Collation: i#^8#, ii#^4#, iii–xx#^8#, xxi#^4#, xxii–xxvii#^8#, xxviii#^4#, with vertical catchwords, legible from the left, and alphabetical leaf signatures; ruled in pale red ink, 22 lines,written-space 100 mm. by 40 mm.
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Bibliography: De Ricci 1935, p. 640; Alexander c. 2010, p. 67.
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ff. 1-212: Jonathan Alexander attributes the painter, the same as Oxford, Keble College, MS 63, made for Antonio Landriani, treasurer of Lodovico il Moro, duke of Milan (Parkes 1979, pp. 281–88). He continued working in Milan after its occupation by Louis XII of France in 1499, and he also illuminated a Book of Hours for Gian Giacomo Trivulzio, regent for the French (Mulas 1999).
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ff. 1-212: Latin.
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ff. 1-212: Ambrosian rite. Colophon: on fol. 212v records, Ad laudem Dei atque eius matris Mariae virginis scriptus est hic liber: pro usu Ioannis Petri vicecomitis prepositi Sanctę Mediolanensis Ecclesiae, Anno salutis Mo. Do. V o. in Vigilia assumptionis eiusdem beatę Mariae Virginis ‘To the praise of God and his mother the Virgin Mary, this book is written, for the use of Giovanni Pietro...
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28 June 2023
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28 June 2023
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