Extent: 227 leaves : parchment ; 70 x 48 (40 x 28) mm bound to 71 x 54 mm
Former Owner(s):
Luini, Pacifico (Franciscan priest), active 19th century
Note:
Ms. codex. Title supplied by cataloger. Collation: Parchment, ii (19th-century (?) paper) + i (parchment) + 227 + iii (19th-century (?) paper); 112 2-68 7-1210 138 148+1(+9?) 15-1610 178+1(+9) 1810 19-228 238−2 (-7, -8 canceled) 246 2510 264; modern foliation in pencil, [i-iii, 1-227, i-iii], upper right recto. Link to collation model at end of record. Layout: Written in 13 long lines; ruled in lead with vertical bounding lines. Script: Written in Gothic rotunda script by a single hand. Decoration: 9 illuminated 3- to 6-line initials in pink, blue, green, red, and white on gold grounds with foliate extensions (f. 29v, 47r, 53v, 60r, 66r, 72r, 83r, 116r, 213v); 1- and 2-line initials alternating between red with purple penwork and blue with red penwork throughout; rubrication in red throughout. Binding: Later full leather, blind-tooled and -stamped but very worn; spine leather cracked vertically. Origin: Written in northern Italy (Venator & Hanstein) after 1450 (inclusion of Saint Bernardino of Siena, canonized 1450, in calendar, f. 5v). Formerly owned by P. Pacifico Luini, Milan (born Gioachino Luini in Milan, took the name Pacifico when joining the Franciscan order, served as a priest in the diocese of Bergamo in Tagliuno by the 1850s; inscription in ink, f. iii verso). Sold at auction by Venator & Hanstein (Cologne, Germany), sale 169 (30 September 2022), lot 342.
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