Missal
Accession number:
MS M.931
Title:
Missal
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:
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).
Script:
Glagolitic
Language:
Croatian, the Čakavci dialect, and Church Slavonic
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