Accession number:
MS M.355
Title:
Liturgical calendar, Ravenna
Created:
Milan, Italy, 1386.
Binding:
Three-quarter vellum with silvered blue paper.
Credit:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Description:
9 leaves (2 columns, 37 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 261 x 182 mm
Provenance:
Arms on title page painted over original shield: per fess, 1: vert a helment argent with a knot gules; 2: azure three bends or; over the fesse line a divise argen; on a chief azure three fleurs-de-lis or between the form points of a label gules; no. 139 in an old collection; old shelf marks B2, 100 and 25; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan from Gruel in 1909; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes:
Ms. written and illuminated in Milan, Italy (calendar for use of Ravenna), in or just before 1386 (table of lunar and solar computations begins with the year 1386).
Artist: a follower of Giovannino de' Grassi.
Includes saints particular to Ravenna: Calocen (Feb. 11); Liberius (Apr. 29); Dati (July 3); Probi (Nov. 10); Proclus (Dec. 1) and Petri Ravenatis (Dec. 3).
Decoration: 1 historiated initial, 12 zodiacal drawings, 1 zodiacal man, 1 moveable diagram with dial.
Script:
textura
Language:
Latin
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