Accession number:
MS M.1118
Title:
Martyrology
Created:
Possibly northern Italy or Germany, ca. 1225-1250.
Binding:
20th-century speckled pigskin.
Credit:
Purchase; Richard E. Priest; 1994.
Description:
46 leaves (1 column, 32 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 353 x 248 mm
Provenance:
Tammaro De Marinis; purchased from De Marinis by Bernard Rosenthal, San Francisco, California, in 1963; Rosenthal Catalogue 23, no. 82 (1971), repr., purchased by Richard E. Priest from Rosenthal in 1973; Priest MS 3; purchased from Priest in 1994.
Notes:
Ms. martyrology; written in northern Italy? Germany?, second quarter 13th century.
Decoration: red and blue, red and greeen puzzlework initials. 1 table (fol. 1) in red and brown ink with names of Zodiac signs written in criss-crossed diagonal lines, used to determine the position of the moon in the Zodiac.
Script:
minuscule
Language:
Latin
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