Fragment from a 15th-century Italian missal :
manuscript.
Description
- Language(s)
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Latin
- Published
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[Italy] : [producer not identified], [between 1400 and 1499]
- Note
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Decoration: recto: very thin and long, sixteen-line initial (I), on left margin of column 1, in blue. verso: in column 1 a ten-line initial (U), enclosed in square ground. Initial is in grey, decorated with grey and white arabesques and geometric patterns. It rests on gold leaf ground, bound by 010 mm. wide borders in red and green sections. Letters of -IRI GALILAEI, in red and blue run vertically along the right side of the initial. Between the stems of the initial appear the feet of an ascending figure (Christ ?), wearing a red mantle. The four-quarter border decoration on verso, contains branchwork and acanthus leaf work, in green, crimson, grey, gold and blue. A few irises and calices in blue stem from the branches. There are bezants throughout."
Mass Propers for the Feasts of In Vigilia Ascensionis [on recto, concluding on the top of column 1 on verso] and In Ascensione Domini [on verso].
One vellum leaf from a 15th-century Missal written in Northern Italy ; texts, arranged in 2 columns, in brown ink with some red-stroked letters ; liturgical rubrics in red ; Roman numeral CX (?) on recto.
Title supplied by cataloguer.
- Physical Description
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1 folio ;
38 x 27 cm
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