Information about this leaf: This manuscript is written on vellum in brown and red ink, with blue and red initial letters, by an Italian scribe.,Information about this book: This leaf comes from a book of approximately 300 pages which was part of the collection of the late Lord Berwick of Shrewsbury, England. Portions of the manuscript may be considered 11th century.,Information about this digital copy: digitized by University of Missouri—Columbia, MU Libraries on February 2, 2016. Scanning specifications: 600 dpi; scanned on Zeutschel OS 15000; cropped using Photoshop.,This leaf was identified from information on the label.

Information about this book: Written by Lorenzo Lippi under the anagram name of Perlone Zipoli.

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This book was identified from the information on the label.

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"ii (parchment) + iv + 41 folios on paper (unidentified watermark), modern foliation in pencil in Arabic numerals in upper-left corner of recto, folios after f. 36 and f. 39 skipped, complete (collation i-iii 10 iv-v 4 vi 2 [+1]), no catchwords, upper and outer margins only ruled in blind (justification 168 x 108 mm.), written in a compact Italian cursive script in brown ink in 26 to 33 long lines, new paragraphs indicated via indentation and/or triangular dot arrangements over the incipits, periodic vocalization, justification via abbreviation and use of anticipatory letters, marginalia in hand of primary scribe throughout, sometimes partially cropped, corrections and strikethroughs in hands of primary and secondary scribes, censors's signatures on versos of ff. iii (Renato da Mod[en]a, 1621) and [40] (Gio[vanni] Dom[enico] Vistarini, 1610; Gir[olamo] da Dura[zza]no, 1641; Fra Luigi [da Bologna], febraro 1599), slight staining to parchment flyleaves, faint dampstaining radiating out from gutter at head and along lower edge throughout, gutters intermittently strengthened, episodic ink blotches or smudging, small hole in f. vi, light worming in lower margins of ff. 2-8 and outer edges of ff. 18-27. Bound in dark blue library buckram, Montefiore name lettered in gilt along spine, Halberstam (124) and Montefiore (409) shelf marks taped to spine, spine splitting along joints at head, light damage to tailcap, corners rounded, modern paper pastedowns and flyleaves. Dimensions 190 x 140 mm.nnOne of the most systematic, well organized Hebrew grammars of the thirteenth century, Petah devarai is a monument of Sephardic linguistic scholarship whose importance as an introduction to the topic is attested in part by its editio princeps of 1492; there is still no modern critical edition. The present volume survives as a neatly written, dated copy of this text, and it is one of only two currently in private hands.",Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A444649/datastream/PDF/view

"ii (parchment) + iv + 41 folios on paper (unidentified watermark), modern foliation in pencil in Arabic numerals in upper-left corner of recto, folios after f. 36 and f. 39 skipped, complete (collation i-iii 10 iv-v 4 vi 2 [+1]), no catchwords, upper and outer margins only ruled in blind (justification 168 x 108 mm.), written in a compact Italian cursive script in brown ink in 26 to 33 long lines, new paragraphs indicated via indentation and/or triangular dot arrangements over the incipits, periodic vocalization, justification via abbreviation and use of anticipatory letters, marginalia in hand of primary scribe throughout, sometimes partially cropped, corrections and strikethroughs in hands of primary and secondary scribes, censors's signatures on versos of ff. iii (Renato da Mod[en]a, 1621) and [40] (Gio[vanni] Dom[enico] Vistarini, 1610; Gir[olamo] da Dura[zza]no, 1641; Fra Luigi [da Bologna], febraro 1599), slight staining to parchment flyleaves, faint dampstaining radiating out from gutter at head and along lower edge throughout, gutters intermittently strengthened, episodic ink blotches or smudging, small hole in f. vi, light worming in lower margins of ff. 2-8 and outer edges of ff. 18-27. Bound in dark blue library buckram, Montefiore name lettered in gilt along spine, Halberstam (124) and Montefiore (409) shelf marks taped to spine, spine splitting along joints at head, light damage to tailcap, corners rounded, modern paper pastedowns and flyleaves. Dimensions 190 x 140 mm.nnOne of the most systematic, well organized Hebrew grammars of the thirteenth century, Petah devarai is a monument of Sephardic linguistic scholarship whose importance as an introduction to the topic is attested in part by its editio princeps of 1492; there is still no modern critical edition. The present volume survives as a neatly written, dated copy of this text, and it is one of only two currently in private hands.",Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A444756/datastream/PDF/view

Fragments of two bifolia (lower section). 27.5 x 13 cm. The fragment is stored in a binder from The Schoyen Collection, MS 1765.

"Illuminated Vellum Manuscript Leaf from a small psalter in Latin (Italy (1350), 5 x 3 1/2"). Single column, 30 lines, written in an extremely pleasing rounded gothic book hand. Five groups of leaves from a sizable fragment: (1) basic leaves, each with several one-line initials in blue and red, typically six to eight (but ranging from two to a dozen) two-line initials in red or blue with elaborate penwork infilling and marginal embellishment in the contrasting color; (2) the same, but with at least one marginal symbol or neatly drawn doodle in brown ink as a method of emphasizing something in the text; (3) the same as the first group, but with an exceptionally charming pen drawing of at least one elf-like creature with a long pointed beard and a cap to match; (4) calendar leaves. Occasional minor soiling and other trivial defects, but almost entirely in very fine condition, especially bright and clean, and with quite ample margins.",Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A439487/datastream/PDF/view

"Folio (29.9 x 22.8 cm, 11.75 x 9"). [1] f. This missal leaf contains the propers for the eighth Sunday after Pentecost, part of the communion and the post-communion prayer for the seventh, and the beginning of the ninth, including part of the epistle. The text is in black, some black initials being lined in red, with rubrics in red and with five red decorative initials and seven blue. Of these, five of the red and six of the blue are two lines in height (the remaining two being one line in height), although the pen tracery on some of these, in red, is up to eight lines in height.nnThe text is written in a round Italian gothic script, in two columns of 31 lines per column. The blind-ruling guiding the scribe's alignment of his text can be seen; the pricking holes showing how the blind-rules were laid on, can be seen also.nnSome light soiling, light cockling; at outer margin, where a small tab was apparently removed, slightest thinning of vellum." nnMissal: Inclina aurem tuam accelera ut eruas me,Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A439455/datastream/PDF/view

"12mo (in all appr. 14 x 18.5 cm, 5.5 x 7.25"). [2] ff. Written in a beautiful clear Italian humanistic hand, this double leaf is probably from a breviary or book of hours. It begins with part of the responsory following the sixth lesson in the office for the dead, and continues with the antiphon incipit, "Complaceat tibi," and the beginning of Psalm 39 (40), as the seventh psalm in that office (opening the third nocturn). The second leaf in this bifolium continues with Psalm 41:2, Psalm 41 being the ninth psalm at matins of the dead (i.e., the third psalm of the third nocturn). While humanistic hand—a distinctive element of the Renaissance style—is more usually associated with classical manuscripts, it was, as this leaf exemplifies, also used for liturgical and devotional texts.nnThe recto of the first leaf has 1 two-line initial E in gold on a reddish purple background with blue inside the strokes of the E, both the blue and the pink having white tracery within. This leaf also contains a total of 14 decorative one-line initials, 6 gold and 8 blue, the latter with fine red tracery. The few short rubrics are in a brownish red. The text, 15 lines to the page, is lightly ruled in blind with a stylus; the top line of text is above the first line of ruling. The stylus was drawn across the hair side of the parchment, and the top lines of ruling run through the gutter.nnIn a simple white mat with both sides of both leaves visible. Vellum a lovely creamy white on the flesh side (the verso of the first and the recto of the second leaf); the hair side is darker, especially in the top margin. Remnants of binding thread remain in the lower part of the gutter.",Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A439309/datastream/PDF/view

Italy; possibly, but not certainly, southern Italy (i.e., calendar lists St. Januarius, Anthony of Padua, and Athanasius, the Neapolitan). Late 15th or early 16th century. Three leaves (16 x 11.1 cm). Southern textualis hand. Ink-flourished initials in violet, red, and blue, with some gilding. Three two-line illuminated initials. One leaf with a square excised and filled with paper.