(Q47033)
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Manuscripts, Renaissance--Italy--1500-1550
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Jesus Christ--Passion--Devotional literature
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ca. 1530
16. century
1530Gregorian
1530Gregorian
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Extent: 1 v. (249 leaves) : ill. ; 22 cm.
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ill.
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Title from incipit, f. 1r: Nel nome dela santissima Trinita incomenza la prima parte di questo sacratissimo libro chiamato Mare Magno dela Crucifissa.
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Date from similarity to Venetian bindings of the period (see curatorial file) and ownership notes.
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With ca. 250 small and 10 large woodcuts cut out from printed books, partly colored, pasted in.
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Written in a very small humanistic hand in black ink in 2 columns (occasionally 1 or 3 columns), rubrics in red in a rotunda gothic hand in 1 column.
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Flyleaves at front and back are vellum part-leaves from a ms. apparently of Monaldus, O.F.M., Summa iuris, written in 2 columns in a gothic book-hand, initial letters in blue and red with pen-work decoration.
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Bound in contemporary goatskin over paper boards, blind-stamped.
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That the author was a Franciscan is likely from his sources, including Ubertino of Casale and Henrico Herp.
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See curatorial file for detailed description of the ms. and further discussion of the work.
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In a tray case, 24 cm.
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Notes on end flyleaf by an owner named Baldassare, recording the birth of his son Bartolomeo in 1557.
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Purchased, 2004.
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23 July 2024
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23 July 2024
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