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- THOMAS AQUINAS AND OTHERS: 27 PRAYERS FOR USE AT MASS
- PRAYER: O SACRO SANCTISSIMO OCHINO DE PIETA
- PORTOLAN MAP OF THE ADRIATIC COAST OF APULIA IN THE KINGDOM OF NAPOLI FROM RINALDO SOUTH AS FAR AS PORT BADISCO, INCLUDING OTRANTO AND INLAND TOWNS WITH LITTLE HILLS
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Description |
MS in Latin and Italian (text 2-3) on vellum, Napoli, Italy, 1st half of 16th c., late 15th c. (text 3), 76 ff. (complete), 14x10 cm, single column, (9x6 cm), 14 lines in a skilful regular Beneventan minuscule by a nun, and in Italian cursive script (texts 2-3), 1-line capitals alternately blue and gold with penwork in red and purple, 30 large decorated initials, 3 3-line and the others 2-line, alternately raised burnished gold with full-length purple penwork or dark blue with full-length red penwork, very large, 5-line illuminated initial on opening page in leafy design in raised burnished gold outlined in red enclosing formal floral pattern in greens with yellow on a blue panel ground with white tracery and full-length bar extending into upper and lower margins into sprays of coloured and burnished gold flowers. |
Binding |
Napoli, Italy, 16th c., limp vellum, sewn on 3 bands, formed of a late 15th c. portolan map, 23x17 cm (text 3). Barking, Essex, 1995, green gilt quarter morocco folding case, by Aquarius. |