Extent: 1 roll (2 membranes) : parchment ; 103 x 1638 mm
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Parchment roll with the Arma Christi, a poem of religious contemplation with illuminations of emblematic representations of Christ and his Passion. Written in England in the second half of the fifteenth century. Span folios: 2 membranes. Support: Parchment. Layout: 148 lines of verse, very faintly ruled in ink. Written in a mixed hand with anglicana and early secretary forms. Decoration: Twenty-four illustrations colored in pink, green and gold, in an unskilled style, and generally similar to those shown by Morris for Brit. Lib. Add. 22029: 1, the Vernicle with the face of Christ in the center of a large cloth, geometrically divided; 2, knife for the Circumcision; 3, pelican in its piety; 4, thirty pieces of silver; 5, lantern; 6, sword and stave; 7, rod; 8, a hand... Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 8/20/2012. Acquired by the Huntington Library at Sotheby's, 11 April 1961, lot 139.
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