(Q43770)
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Cyprian, Saint, Bishop of Carthage
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Bartholomeus de Schianchis of Parma
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Decorated initials--Italy--15th centuy
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Cyprian, Saint, Bishop of Carthage--Correspondence
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1456
15. century
1456Gregorian
1456Gregorian
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Extent: ff. 240 : parchment ; 175 x 270 mm
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Title from printed catalog.
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Support: Parchment.
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Script: Humanistic.
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Layout: 1-2410. Catchwords written vertically from top to bottom within the space provided by the bounding lines. Signatures apparently consist of a letter of the alphabet and an arabic numeral. 36 long lines, ruled in dry point until f. 170, thereafter in ink. Double vertical bounding lines to form a space for initials. Pricking for these lines visible in upper and lower margins.
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Span folios: ff. 1-240v.
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Other Decoration: Opening leaf, full white vine-stem border, twining around a support made of 2 parallel gold strips which enlarge to form medallions for vine-stem flowers or putti blowing horns. In the lower margin, within an elaborate gold star pattern is a coat of arms. Opening initial, 7-line, in gold against a rectangular ground, the same as the border; rubric in gold square capitals...
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The scribal colophon is at the end of the text on f. 240: . . . ne sine nobis christus esse incipiat in futuro. Amen. Explicit opus Sancti Cipriani per me Bartholomeum de Schianchis clericum parmensem in Urbe 24 februarii 1456 [the year traced over in black ink] Anno [followed by an erasure which may read "per O__?___"]. On f. iv verso, an 8-line erased inscription, s. XVII, apparently giving...
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Assigned Date: s. XVmed.
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Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/31/2012.
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Written in Rome in 1456 by Bartholomeus de Schianchis, who also copied Vat. lat. 1774, in 1455. The first owner's name may have been erased from the colophon, f. 240; coat of arms, f. 1, remains unidentified: erased, an imperial chief: or an eagle displayed sable. On ff. 1, 137 and 240 the stamp "Di Casa Minutoli Tegrimi." Reproductions of the stamp as it occurs in J.A. 3216 are on pl. XXII...
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22 July 2024
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22 July 2024
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