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Accession number:
MS M.944
Title:
Prayer book
Created:
Milan, Italy, ca. 1430.
Binding:
19th-century red velvet with silver clasps.
Credit:
Purchased with the generous assistance of Alice Tully in memory of Dr. Edward Graeffe, 1970.
Description:
95 leaves (1 column, 15 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 170 x 120 mm
Provenance:
Purchased by H.P. Kraus from a private collector in Milan in 1949; sold by Kraus to Martin Bodmer, Geneva-Cologny; re-purchased by H.P. Kraus from Bodmer ca. 1968; purchased from Kraus with the generous assistance of Miss Alice Tully in memory of Dr. Edward Graeffe in 1970.
Notes:
Ms. prayer book; written and illuminated in Milan, Italy, about 1430.
Collation: I4, II8, III9, IV8, V9, VI7, VII9, VIII6, IX5, X4, XI7, XII8, XIII8, XIV3.
The manuscript is written in dark brown ink by one scribe.
The text comprises 47 prayers arranged liturgically and dedicated to various feasts taken from the Temporal and Sanctoral cycles of the church year.
Decoration: 22 full-page miniatures with floral borders, 1 historiated initial, 47 text pages with borders, 46 illuminated initials; at least half of the original miniatures and parts of the texts are missing.
Artist: Michelino (de' Molinari) da Besozzo.
Script:
textura
Language:
Latin
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