Fragments 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: folio CCIIII, recto: one three-line initial (E) in inks and tempera in shades of green and yellow, on square ground, in various shades of red and brown with acanthus leaves extending along the margin, in blue, crimson, green and red; buds in burnished silver stem from the leaves; an asterisk in light-yellow. On folio CCXIII, verso, one four-line initial (O), in inks and tempera in shades of brown, red, yellow and burnished silver, on square ground in shades of blue. Acanthus leaves in shades of blue, green, and light-brown, extend from the ground into the margin; asterisks in burnished silver appear between the leaves. One three-line initial (S) on CCXIII, verso, in red and blue inks, on square ground, made of curlicues, bars and filigree decorations, extending into the margin, all drawn in red ink. Numerous one and two-line initials in alternating blue and red inks with bars, alternating in blue and red, extending into the margins.
Two vellum leaves from a 15th-century Missal likely written in Northern Italy ; texts, arranged in 2 columns, 30 lines, in light brown ink ; liturgical rubrics in red ; contemporary foliation in red ink (CCIIII, CCXIII).
Title supplied by cataloguer.
- Physical Description
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2 folios ;
33 x 25 cm
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