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21. Fragment of a calendar leaf from a manuscript breviary [MS 121]
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Manuscript document. Title devised by cataloger., Recto: the beginning of the May page in a Franciscan calendar. Verso; the June page in a Franciscan calendar., Collation: single sheet (fragment), Origin: Italy., Lettering: Written in Gothic Antiqua., Decoration: Written using red, black, and some blue pigment. The blue pigment is raised and textured. No illumination., Binding: disbound fragment.
22. De Consideratione
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Manuscript codex., Collation: Quires of 10, the last with 3 blank leaves. Vertical catchwords at end of quire. No signatures or pagination. Leaves lightly numbered in pencil in upper outer corner of recto. 8 sewing stations., Decoration: Initials at beginning of each book. Occasional outer margin vertical penwork designs in black or yellow ink. Leaf 1r: Initial ‘S’ with whitework interlaced vines extending along upper left margin, spaces filled with brown ink wash. Leaf 14r: Yellow initial ‘M’ with interlaced vines in white or with yellow ink wash, background in brown ink. Leaf 32r: Decorative ‘F’, same as previous. Leaf 47r: Decorative ‘S’. Leaf 126r: Decorative ‘L’., Binding: Black morocco leather over boards, impressed with fine diaper pattern and blind-stamped twisted stem border. Gilt title lengthwise on spine: “Mss. S. Bernardi De Consideratione.”, Script: Semi-slanting Italic Humanistic hand with long ascenders and descenders and occasional swashes, in brown ink with black or purplish-blue headings. Comments in yellow or black ink, occasional corrections in same hand in black ink.
23. Phaedon
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Manuscript codex., This translation is by humanist scholar Leonardo Bruni. Probably made from a manuscript brought to Italy by Chrysoloras., Collation: Small folio in quires I-II__, III__., Decoration: 2 initials in red with very fine blue tracery, and in blue with red tracery. f1r [initial large majuscule red 'Q']UI LAUDANT SACTITUTEM TUAM/ bearissime pater opus certe bonum ac pium agere/ pergunt. [TRANSLATION] THOSE WHO PRAISE YOUR HOLINESS, most blessed father, certainly continue to drive the good and pious work. f1r [Superscript marginal addendum in cursive hand] Platonis Phaedon, sive de animo in Leonardo Arentino (latine redditum) f1v [Initial Blue 'I'] PSE affuisti o Pheton ea die qua Socrates venenum bibit in carcere. An ab alio quodam audivisti. [TRANSLATION] Oh Phaeton, were you yourself present on this day when Socrates drinks poison in prison, or did you hear from someone else?, Binding: Contemporary binding of gray linen with olive morocco back with title in gilt: PHAEDON E VERS. LEON ARENTI., Script: upright humanistic Roman hand with much abbreviation.
24. Large leaf from a breviary containing musical notation
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Manuscript document, Collation: Parchment, single sheet., Decoration: initials in red and blue, one with pen flourishing; rubrication., Binding: Disbound., Lettering: Rotunda.
25. Biblia Sacra Latina
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Manuscript codex. Prologus, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numeri, Deuteronomiu, Iosue, Iudicu, Ruth, Regu I, II, III, IV. Paralip I, II. Esdras I, II, III. Tobit, Iudith, Hester, Iob, Psalms. Parabole salomonis, Eclesiastes. Cantica, Sapientie, Ecclesiasticus, Ysayis, Iherentia, Lamtatios. Baruch, Ezechihel, Daniel, Osee, Ioel, Amos, Abdia, Ionas, Micheas, Naum, Abacuch, Sophonias, Aggeus, Zachaias, Malachias, Machabeor[um] I, II. Titum, Philemone, Hebraos, Actus, Iacobus, Petrus I, II. Iohannes I, II, III. Iude, Apocalipsis, Interpretations (Hebrew Names), Concordance or Subject Index., Decoration: Illuminated with large initials in gold paint (not leaf) and tarnished silver leaf, blue, red, and green with white tracery. Designs include human faces, grotesque animals, and interlaced vines and strapwork. Capital letters in red and blue. Text pages have runner in alternating letters of blue and red., Binding: Dark green morocco over boards, blind-stamped in diagonal mesh. Gold tooled paneling with corner fleurons inside covers. Deeply tooled gilt crest with monogram TW (Theodore Williams) on front cover; armorial design on back. On six-paneled spine: 'S. S. BIBLIA LATINA. CODEX ANTIQUUS. SUPRA MEMBRANIS'. Gilt and gauffered edges. Two flyleaves of newer, heavier parchment. Text has been trimmed., Script: Minute (1 mm high) Gothic script in brown ink with rubrication. The size is typical of the 13th century, versus the large works of the 12th century (per Sir Edward Maunde Thompson (1840-1929) in Introduction to Greek and Latin Paleography). Includes corrections by another scribe. The uncrossed '7' for 'et' indicates Italian origin. However, the script also shows French influence. The appearance of some rounded letterforms points to an early date for this manuscript showing its strong Carolingian influence., Origin: On the leaf before the MS. commences is a note in a 14th c. hand, 9 lines, in red and black, giving rules for finding the date of Easter from 1350 onward. Also on this leaf the 14th c. owner's name apparently appeared, but has been erased; there remains a note that the MS. cost him 19 florins...Also a further note for finding the date of Easter occurs on the last leaf...repeating the words 'mill'io C.C.C. quinquagesimo. This shows the book is earlier than 1350 (Thomas Thorp, bookseller, London).
26. Dialogorum libri IV
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Manuscript codex. Gregory's dialogues with his favorite Deacon, intended to honor the memory of the saints of Italy and to edify and instruct his countrymen. In Book IV, Gregory attempts to strengthen their faith in the unseen by proving that the soul does not perish., Collation: Gatherings of 8, the last of 6; signatures to 3, f. 82; 4, f. 124. Book numbers at top recto., Decoration: Two large initials, one in red and one in green, red, and blue. Many small initials in red or green, a few in blue. Each chapter heading has a red capital., Binding: parchment over thin boards, 4 thongs, spine lined with white evenweave fabric. Pastedown and flyleaf of thick rough paper. Written on spine in brown ink: S. Gregory Dialog. and two unintelligible lines., Script: Rounded Gothic minuscule book hand in brown ink with rubrication., Content Note: Dr. Giuseppe Martini (probably Giuseppe Alfredo Martini, bibliophile and collector, 1870-1944), as recorded by Edward Sandford Burgess: Probable date, 1150-60. Ruled with sharp point in style of 12th century. After 1300 green found in polychrome only. Written in North Italy, since it had been in a monastery at Genoa. Looks like the beautiful writing they did in Benedictine monastery, Morimondo, of the order of St. Justin, in the province of Pavia. There they write a peculiar and excellent hand like this. Date is confirmed by opinion of Mr. Minns (possibly Dr. Ellis Hovell Minns (1874-1953)), University reader in Paleography, Cambridge, England, as quoted in 1907 letter from rare books firm P. M. Barnard: It is 12th c...1150-75 Italian...Borne out by monastery inscription. Pierce and Fox argue that it is mid-12th century due to the single column layout and lack of letter fusion typical of later Gothic script. They assert it is not Italian due to the script angularity and the type of abbreviations.
27. Manuscript leaf from a book of commentary
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Manuscript document. Title devised by cataloger. Leaf has modern pencil markings, various stains, a small tear at the bottom (not affecting text) and scattered small holes (some affecting text)., Collation: Single sheet., Origin: France., Lettering: Main text: Continental protogothic book script. Marginal annotation in red ink on recto: English protogothic book script. Annotation in black ink on recto may be in a progothic documentary script., Decoration: Recto: Initials in blue, red, yellow ochre, and green. Instances of initial S have red flourishing; initial V has a flourish on left arm; initial D has green flourish; and initial P has red flourish. Verso: Initials in blue, red, and yellow ochre. Initial C has red flourish; initial F has blue flourishing; and initial I has red flourishing. Rubrication on both recto and verso., Annotations in two hands on recto., Binding: Disbound.
28. Leaf from medieval manuscript breviary
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Manuscript document. Contains text from Daniel 2:31-49 and Hosea 1:1-11., Collation: Parchment, single sheet., Decoration: Initials in red and blue, with red and blue flourishing; rubrication., Binding: Disbound., Lettering: Textura., Date from dealer description., Contains text from Daniel 2:31-49 and Hosea 1:1-11.
29. Bifolium from a book of hours
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Manuscript document, Collation: Parchment, single folded sheet., Decoration: Initials and linefill of tempera and burnished gold., Binding: Disbound., Lettering: Textura.
30. Leaf from a Book of Hours showing nativity scene.
Description
Manuscript document. Nativity scene at the start of Prime., Collation: 1 disbound leaf., Decoration: Recto: miniature of the Nativity in the stable: Mary in blue robe and cloak, reaching down to infant Jesus. Joseph sits in green tunic, pink cloak, and blue hood, with an ox and an ass. Behind a wattle fence stands a shepherd in red tunic, light yellow cowl, and black hat. Minimal landscape of grass and five trees in background. Text begins with a large illuminated 'D' with a vine motif in blue and red with whitework, on a background of raised gold. Four short lines of text follow, the third with a decorative bar at end, the fourth with a smaller illuminated 'D' in the same colors. Miniature is framed by a bar border in the same colors along left, right, and foot edges. The whole is surrounded by sprays of stylized acanthus in blue and yellow-brown, stems of small blue flowers with leaves in green or raised gold, and fruits in red or pink., Binding: Framed in dark purple velvet on recto, purplish-brown leather on verso. Pasted note on frame verso: 134. The Nativity. A leaf from a French Horae at the beginning of Prime. The miniature measures 3 1/2 x 2/58 inches, and depicts the Nativity, with the Virgin, Joseph, a shepherd and an ox and an ass adoring the Child; beneath is an illuminated initial D, the whole being surrounded by a border of the line and leaf type; mounted in a frame of dark red velvet. £12-12-0. 15TH cent., Script: Compact Gothic minuscule in brown ink with some ligatures, abbreviations, and rubrication. Recto: one red word (prime); verso: two red words and one red character., Content note: Recto: First verse of the 69th Psalm: Deus in prime aduitoriu[m] meu[m] intende. Domine ad -- Verso: juvandum me festina. Gloria Patri. Sicut erat. Truncated, resumes with hymn: Ueni cr[e]ator spiritus. Mentes tuouru[m] visita, imple superna gratia que tu cr[e]asti pectora. Memento salutis auctor cp[=quod] nostri c[u]ondam corporis ex illibata virgine nascendo forma[m] sumpseris. Maria mater grati[a]e. Gloria tibi domine. Autha. Beginning of Psalm 1: Maria uirgo psalmus. Beatus uir qui non abiit in consilio impiorum: et in uia peccatorum non stetit.
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