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An anonymous translation of the Golden Legend different from translation used in early printed editions. Description of G. Martini calls it "volgarizzamento del sec. XIV."
Support: paper; Extent: 154 leaves : 228 x 155 (188 x 115) mm. bound to 235 x 170 mm; Foliation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 154 + i (modern paper); [1-154]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; older foliation partly cut off in binding.
Written in 2 columns of 49 lines; ruled in ink with vertical bounding lines.
Written in cursive humanist script.
Initials in red and blue with penwork decorations.
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Title from Zacour-Hirsch Catalogue, no title page.
Incipit: Questa e la tavola...(f. 1r); Questo sono i sermoni dell'avento di Christo e poi drie segue le legende di sancti de la corte di Roma...[Text:] Tutto il tempo della vita presente se destingue in quatro...(f. 5r).
Ms. codex.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
Italy
Written in Italy, April 19, 1459 (f. 154v).
Half calf; upper and lower cover detached.
Italian
Appears in H. P. Kraus's list 189 (1956), no. 91.
Purchased from H. P. Kraus, 1963.
Formerly owned by Giuseppe Martini.
Purchased by H. P. Kraus from the Martini collection, circa 1948.
S. Maria Angelorum, Ferrara.
Italy
Written in Italy, April 19, 1459 (f. 154v).
Italian
Appears in H. P. Kraus's list 189
Purchased from H. P. Kraus, 1963.
Formerly owned by Giuseppe Martini.
Purchased by H. P. Kraus from the Martini collection, circa 1948.
S. Maria Angelorum, Ferrara.
An anonymous translation of the Golden Legend different from translation used in early printed editions. Description of G. Martini calls it "volgarizzamento del sec. XIV."
Title from Zacour-Hirsch Catalogue, no title page.
Incipit: Questa e la tavola...(f. 1r); Questo sono i sermoni dell'avento di Christo e poi drie segue le legende di sancti de la corte di Roma...[Text:] Tutto il tempo della vita presente se destingue in quatro...(f. 5r).
Ms. codex.
Written in cursive humanist script.
Initials in red and blue with penwork decorations.
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
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