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De christiana religione
Author: St Bernadino of Siena
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, i modern paper flyleaf + 321 fols. (early ink foliation to 109) + i modern paper flyleaf, 185 x 128 mm (130 x 93 mm) (except fol. 167, a slightly later insertion: 185 x 60 mm), two columns, 40 lines (except fols. 73va-78rb where verse lines are used), ruled in plummet and brown ink, occasional running titles in a later hand, catchwords, leaf signatures.
BINDING: Nineteenth century, painted paper over pasteboards with green leather spine and red leather label.
CONTENTS: fols. 1r-321v St Bernardino of Siena, De christiana religione (incomplete) (Collegium S. Bonaventurae 1950-1965, I, 3 – II, 468).
DECORATION: Red initial [N, 11 ll.] with red pen flourishing (fol. 1r); red initials [2-5 ll.] with occasional minor red pen flourishing (fol. 143v, a rudimentary face), for all subsequent text divisions, not executed after fol. 270r, guide letters in brown ink; red paraph marks; initial letter of each sentence highlighted in red; some rubrics not executed.
History note: Pencil notes in French on front pastedown; elliptical bookplate with coronet and COMES HERCULES SILVA (fol. i recto); purchased by the Museum in 1890.
Method of acquisition: Bought (1890)
15th Century, second quarter#
Production date:
circa
AD 1436
Support composed of parchment
Accession number: MS 174
Primary reference Number: 178353
Project ID: 400
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
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