(Q45464)

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Epistola ad heremitas Sancti Augustini
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Estouteville, Guillaume d', approximately 1412-1483
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Manuscripts, Medieval--Italy--1450-1500
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Manuscripts, Renaissance--Italy--1450-1500
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Extent: 17 leaves, bound : vellum, ill. ; 17 cm.
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Written in a humanistic script in 1 column of 33 lines with marginal notations in pale red; title page with large gilt initial and border in white-vine decoration and with arms of Pope Sixtus IV; 1 half-page miniature of the pope enthroned, surrounded by a cardinal and 3 Augustinian monks, with a portrait medallion within a white-vine border (f. 2r); 14 gilt historiated initials representing...
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Letter is dated Rome, 1475 (f. 17r).
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Title supplied by cataloger.
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Bound in late 15th-cent. blind-tooled brown sheep.
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In a tray case, 19 cm.
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Bequest of William K. Richardson, 1951.
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Belonged to A.W.M. Mensing; his sale (London, 15 Dec. 1936, I, lot 177); Richardson.
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23 July 2024
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23 July 2024
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