Accession number
MS M.931
Object title
New York missal (MS M.931).
Display Date
between 1400 and 1410? or during the second quarter of the 15th century?
Created
Western Croatia, between 1400 and 1410? or during the second quarter of the 15th century?
Binding
English early 19th-century Russia binding over thick wooden boards, hollowed out to leave areas in high relief; decorated in blind; blind-tooled doublures, perhaps by T. Witaker; small projections from the edges of the boards in the manner of a 'box-binding'.
Credit line
Purchased on the Belle da Costa Greene Fund, 1967.
Description
293 leaves (2 columns, 30 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 280 x 195 mm
Provenance
Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford (1766-1827, his bookplate on front flyleaf); his sale (London, R.H. Evans, 8 December 1830, lot 460) to Thorpe for Sir Thomas Phillipps (Phillipps Collection no. 6446); Phillipps sale (London, Sotheby's, 29 November 1966, lot 62) to Martin Breslauer, London, purchased from Breslauer on the Belle da Costa Greene Fund in 1967 (invoice is 1967).
Notes
Ms. missal; written and illuminated in western Croatia between 1400 and 1410? or during the second quarter of the 15th century?
Written in black ink, this is a translation of the Roman Missal, and other texts, including a Psalter, into the Čakavci dialect of the Croatian language.
Decoration: 4 historiated initials [Evangelist symbols, fols. 82, 88, 93, 102], three initials with vegetal and zoomorphic motifs [fols. 144v, 148v, 197] (Decoration interesting because it combines painted initials imitating Byzantinizing Italian style with characteristic Slav penwork initials).
Written in black ink, this is a translation of the Roman Missal, and other texts, including a Psalter, into the Čakavci dialect of the Croatian language.
Decoration: 4 historiated initials [Evangelist symbols, fols. 82, 88, 93, 102], three initials with vegetal and zoomorphic motifs [fols. 144v, 148v, 197] (Decoration interesting because it combines painted initials imitating Byzantinizing Italian style with characteristic Slav penwork initials).
Script
Glagolitic
Language
Croatian, the Čakavci dialect, and Church Slavonic
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