Pontifical (DS9755) (Q43269)

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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b18619836, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861983, mssHM 1078)
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Pontifical (DS9755)
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b18619836, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861983, mssHM 1078)

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    Pontificals--France--14th century
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    Musical notation--France--14th century
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    Historiated initials--France--14th century
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    between 1385 and 1399
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    Extent: ff. iii + 214 + ii : parchment ; 245 x 330 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- 268 276. Catchwords in the lower right corner; quire and leaf signatures apparently in roman numerals with a suprascript letter (cf. ff. 108, 124, 131). Ruled space, 214 x 154 mm; 2 columns of 27 lines, ruled in lead.
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    Music: Music on 4-line staves.
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    Decoration: Eighty-eight historiated initials by two artists, 6- to 4-line. For the work of the second artist, the last 18 initials, lightly written instructions remain visible in the margins.
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    Offset outlines of the miniature frames and marginal extensions often impressed upon conjunct leaves showing that the painting was done on loose bifolia.
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    Assigned Date: s. XIVex.
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    Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 12/13/2009.
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    Written in the late fourteenth century, perhaps in southern France. The coat of arms in the lower margin of f. 1 is of the bishopric of Tarazona: 1 and 4, vert a cross moline or voided gules; 2 and 3, or three bars gules, supported by 2 angels. The bishop who first owned the book may have been Pedro Perez Calvillo, Bishop of Tarazona, 1352-91, or his brother, Fernando, Bishop of Tarazona...
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    22 July 2024
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    22 July 2024
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