Accession number
MS M.800
Object title
Liturgical miscellany (MS M.800).
Display Date
ca. 1370.
Created
Bologna, Italy, ca. 1370.
Binding
Previously in 18th-century red velvet; rebound in red native-dyed goat by Deborah Evetts in 1972.
Credit line
Purchased on the Lewis Cass Ledyard Fund, 1937.
Description
76 leaves (1 column, 25 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 228 x 160 mm
Provenance
Probably made for a member of the Spanish community in Bologna, perhaps of the Colegio de España (prayer to Saints Eugene and Idelfonsus on fol. 6, prayer of Rodrigo Jimenez, archbishop of Toledo (1209-1247) on fol. 10v); in France at some time in the 15th century when fols. 50-76 were added; purchased by Henry Hucks Gibbs, first baron Aldenham (1819-1907) in 1880 (armorial bookplate on inside front cover); purchased at the Aldenham Library Sale (London, Sotheby's, Mar. 23, 1937, lot 237) through the Lewis Cass Ledyard Fund.
Notes
Ms. liturgical miscellany; written and illuminated in Bologna, Italy, ca. 1370 (part 1) and in France in the early 15th century (part 2).
Texts: ordinal (fol. 1-47v); Benedictones episcopales and other liturgical rituals (fol. 50-76).
Musical notation: 4-line staves in red ink with square notes.
Decoration: 1 full-page miniature; 18 historiated initials.
Artist: Niccolò da Bologna (Niccolò di Giacomo), who has signed the miniature on fol. 39v: Nicolaus de Bononia F.
Texts: ordinal (fol. 1-47v); Benedictones episcopales and other liturgical rituals (fol. 50-76).
Musical notation: 4-line staves in red ink with square notes.
Decoration: 1 full-page miniature; 18 historiated initials.
Artist: Niccolò da Bologna (Niccolò di Giacomo), who has signed the miniature on fol. 39v: Nicolaus de Bononia F.
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Language
Latin
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