Binding: Not bound. Figurative details, One cutting: Large illuminated initial ‘S’ enclosing a three-quarter-length standing figure of Saint Stephen holding a martyr’s palm and a book, two stones wounding his head, cut to shape. Layout, One cutting: Laid down on card, partly peeled back at the foot revealing a few strokes of text in a large rounded gothic hand.
Former Owner(s):
Old number ‘849’ on verso; C. L. Ricketts; acquired by the Lilly Library with the Ricketts Collection in 1961.
Bibliography: Baroffio 1999, p. 25. One cutting: The maestro's manuscripts are variously attributed to dates between about 1310 and the mid-century, complicated or confirmed by his work in a choirbook written for the Cistercian abbey of San Salvatore a Settimo, near Florence, dated 1315 but not necessarily illuminated immediately (Rome, Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, Cod. D). Maestro Daddesco and his workshop clearly specialised in... One cutting: Latin. Cutting: Large illuminated initial ‘S’.
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