(Q45752)
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Book of hours
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Master of the Suffrages
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Gentile di Giuseppe, F
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Salem, Adriana R
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Manuscripts, Medieval--Italy--1450-1500
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between 1458 and 1465
15. century
1458Gregorian
1465Gregorian
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Extent: 144 leaves, bound : vellum ; 18 cm.
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Written in a gothic rotunda book hand in black ink, with red rubrics, in one column. Small initial letters are in blue or burnished gold with pen-work decoration.
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There are 4 large and 11 small historiated initials in colors, silver and gold. There are 12 full foliate borders, and other part-borders, by the Master of the Suffrages (see Katzenstein).
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On f. 13r the border incorporates arms impaling those of Queen Isabella di Chiaromonte (1404-65) and her husband Ferrante (king of Naples from 1458).
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Bound in old blue velvet over wooden boards.
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In a tray case, 20 cm.
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F. Gentili di Giuseppe (bought between 1900 and 1925); his daughter Adriana Raphael Salem (bookplate).
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Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ward M. Canaday, 1964.
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23 July 2024
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23 July 2024
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