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GRADUAL, in Latin, DECORATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM
[Italy, ?Rome, 13th century]
235 x 170mm. 54 leaves, various sections from a Gradual, eight lines of music of square notation on a four-line stave in red above text in a gothic bookhand, rubrics in red, one- and two-line initials alternately red or blue with flourishing of the other colour (first five and final 12 leaves with fading and some staining and tears or losses to margin, other spotting and marks).19th-century quarter calf (spine worn and split).
This is a collection of groups of leaves from a small format single-volume Gradual: it opens with 14 leaves from the Temporale from the 4th to the 22nd Sunday after Pentecost; 5 leaves from the Sanctoral from the end of the chants for a Feast of the Virgin, to the Dedication of St. Michael, the Birth of St. Francis, All Saints and St Clement; 25 leaves from the Common of Saints; 7 leaves from the Kyriale; 3 final leaves with later additions.
The prominence given to the birth of St. Francis suggests that the Gradual was for the use of a Franciscan friar or friars. It may be that the Dedication of the Church of St. Michael, as well as some of the saints listed in the minor variants of the Sanctorale point to an origin in or close to Rome. Marginal annotations include the name Mariano Bargellino and the dates 1830 and 1831, when the manuscript appears still to have been in Italy. This may be the author of Storia popolare di Genova: dalla sua origine fino ai nostri tempi, 1836-57.
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PLATEARIUS, Circa Instans, a leaf in Latin, DECORATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM
[southern Italy, 13th century]
220 x 150mm. This single leaf, loosely inserted in the back of the volume is a lifted pastedown, possibly from the original binding: written in two columns of 33 lines, with alternate initials in red or blue, it is a leaf from a 13th-century copy of the Circa Instans or Liber de simplicibus medicine, the pharmacological work composed towards the end of the 12th century by, most probably, Matthaeus Platearius, master of the renowned School of Salerno. It lists, in alphabetical order, botanical specimens giving their natures and properties. This leaf carries the entry on 'Rubus' or raspberry, the list of medicinal plants beginning with S and the entries for 'Spicanardi' or spikenard and the beginning of 'Strigno' or Morella (creased and stained).
[Italy, ?Rome, 13th century]
235 x 170mm. 54 leaves, various sections from a Gradual, eight lines of music of square notation on a four-line stave in red above text in a gothic bookhand, rubrics in red, one- and two-line initials alternately red or blue with flourishing of the other colour (first five and final 12 leaves with fading and some staining and tears or losses to margin, other spotting and marks).19th-century quarter calf (spine worn and split).
This is a collection of groups of leaves from a small format single-volume Gradual: it opens with 14 leaves from the Temporale from the 4th to the 22nd Sunday after Pentecost; 5 leaves from the Sanctoral from the end of the chants for a Feast of the Virgin, to the Dedication of St. Michael, the Birth of St. Francis, All Saints and St Clement; 25 leaves from the Common of Saints; 7 leaves from the Kyriale; 3 final leaves with later additions.
The prominence given to the birth of St. Francis suggests that the Gradual was for the use of a Franciscan friar or friars. It may be that the Dedication of the Church of St. Michael, as well as some of the saints listed in the minor variants of the Sanctorale point to an origin in or close to Rome. Marginal annotations include the name Mariano Bargellino and the dates 1830 and 1831, when the manuscript appears still to have been in Italy. This may be the author of Storia popolare di Genova: dalla sua origine fino ai nostri tempi, 1836-57.
with
PLATEARIUS, Circa Instans, a leaf in Latin, DECORATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM
[southern Italy, 13th century]
220 x 150mm. This single leaf, loosely inserted in the back of the volume is a lifted pastedown, possibly from the original binding: written in two columns of 33 lines, with alternate initials in red or blue, it is a leaf from a 13th-century copy of the Circa Instans or Liber de simplicibus medicine, the pharmacological work composed towards the end of the 12th century by, most probably, Matthaeus Platearius, master of the renowned School of Salerno. It lists, in alphabetical order, botanical specimens giving their natures and properties. This leaf carries the entry on 'Rubus' or raspberry, the list of medicinal plants beginning with S and the entries for 'Spicanardi' or spikenard and the beginning of 'Strigno' or Morella (creased and stained).