Indiana University Bloomington, Ricketts K: 4

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS549

Shelfmark:

Ricketts K: 4

Title:

Gradual

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

s. XIV(3/4); 1350-1375

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Binding: Not bound.
Figurative details, One cutting: Large illuminated initial 'A' enclosing a kneeling figure of a bearded man looking up in prayer at a half-length fullface figure of Christ blessing and holding an open book, cut to shape; the gold and the halo flaked.
Other decoration, One cutting: Rubric on verso, unusually, in blue.
Script, One cutting: Gothic.
Music, One cutting: 4-line red stave, 30 mm. high and 30 mm. between staves.

Former Owner(s):

Count Grigori Stroganoff (1829-1910, died in Rome), with his stamp on verso; doubtless from his sale, Jandolo and Travazzi, Rome, 18-24 April 1910; C. L. Ricketts, bought in 1911 from C. E. Rappaport, Rome; acquired by the Lilly Library with the Ricketts Collection in 1961.

Grigorij Sergeevič Stroganov WIKIDATA

Count Grigori Stroganoff (1829-1910, died in Rome), with his stamp on verso; doubtless from his sale, Jandolo and Travazzi, Rome, 18-24 April 1910; C. L. Ricketts, bought in 1911 from C. E. Rappaport, Rome; acquired by the Lilly Library with the Ricketts Collection in 1961.

Coella Lindsay Ricketts WIKIDATA

Note:

Manuscript note: The Ricketts initial is apparently from the same manuscript as Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E M 25: 4, bought at Sotheby's, 27 April 1927, lot 730, showing a similar but smaller individual, this time a younger man with a brown cloak, lifting his hands in prayer to Christ. The colouring, the surrounding leafy ornament and especially the complicated white penwork around...
Bibliography: Baroffio 1999, p. 25.
One cutting: Probably the opening initial of a Gradual, beginning with the introit Mass on the first Sunday in Advent, "Ad te levavi animam meam . . .", (‘To you I have lifted up my soul’, psalm 24). The other possibility, for which the subject would be consistent, is "Aspiciens a longe . . .", the antiphon for Matins on the first Sunday in Advent, often illustrated with a person gazing up at...
One cutting: Latin.
f. 1v: Part of the versicle which follows at Mass, "v. Vias [tuas domine demo]nstra michi [ut semitas tuas e]doche me. Glo[ria patri . . .]."

Institutional Record:

https://archive.org/details/RickettsK4_40

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archivelab.org/iiif/Images_RickettsK4_40/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Indiana University Bloomington