(Q43566)

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Summa de poenitentia et matrimonio
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Summa de poenitentia et matrimonio
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Historiated initials--France--13th century
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Illuminations (paintings)--France--13th century
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Penance (Canon law)--Early works to 1800
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Penitentials--Early works to 1800
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Marriage (Canon law)--Early works to 1800
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between 1285 and 1299
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Extent: ff. 232 : parchment ; 145 x 213 mm
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Title from printed catalog.
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Support: Parchment.
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Script: Gothic.
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Layout: 1-2310 242. Catchwords written horizontally in the inner margin; 2 columns of 26 lines, ruled in lead, with top, middle and bottom 2 lines full across; additional single rule across the width of the text space in the upper margin for running headlines; other single rules down the outer margin and full across the lower margin; pricking visible in the 3 outer margins.
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Span folios: ff. 1-232v.
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Decoration: Three historiated initials, 6- or 5-line, in white-patterned blue or pink against a diapered ground of the other color; the background of the infilling, the narrow strip framing the initial, and decoration on the marginal extensions in burnished gold. Initial on f. 63 (Book 2, chapter De homicidio), a letter I, the length of the text in the shape of a grotesque, with a tiny, free...
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The extensions composed of biting, dragon-like grotesques and small vegetable forms, are similar to those discussed in E. J. Beer, "Das Scriptorium des Johannes Philomena und seine Illuminatoren, zur Buchmalerei in der Region Arras-Cambrai, 1250 bis 1274," Scriptorium 23 (1969) 24-38 and pl. 7-13.
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Assigned Date: s. XIIIex.
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Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 3/4/2012.
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Belonged to the Rev. Henry Drury (1778-1841); his note, cut from the flyleaf of the previous binding, tipped in before f. 1; his sale, Evans, 19 February 1827, n. 2386 to Haswell. Acquired by Henry E. Huntington from the Ross C. Winans collection, through G. D. Smith in January 1918.
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22 July 2024
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22 July 2024
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