Ovid, Heroides, two bifolia from a decorated manuscript in Latin, on vellum [Italy (perhaps central Italy or Umbria), last decades of the thirteenth century] 2 bifolia (the second bisected laterally), each leaf approximately 350mm. by 205mm., single column, 39 lines of fine and rounded Italian gothic bookhand, written space 235mm. by 135mm., capitals touched in red, rubrics in red, each section opening with a large initial and 3 lines of ornamental capitals touched in red, 2 large initials in red infilled and encased within tightly scrolling red and black penwork, one very large initial in green heightened with white penwork dots and circles on vivid red and orange grounds with blue acanthus leaf sprays, terminating in scrolls of acanthus in margin (finding close parallels in manuscripts of the late thirteenth century: see Dix Siècles d’Enluminure Italienne, 1984, no.36, illustrated p.48, and Palladino, Treasures of a Lost Art, 2003, nos.3d-f, pp.10-11), recovered from bindings with scuffing and flaking from initials, large loss of section of outer border of first bifolium (approximately 90mm. by 45mm.) with slight affect to some lines of text, stains, holes and with large areas of text still covered by paper, sixteenth- or seventeenth-century inscription “Cardinalii Gaberella” on first bifolium, overall fair condition
Ovid, Heroides, two bifolia from a decorated manuscript in Latin, on vellum [Italy (perhaps central Italy or Umbria), last decades of the thirteenth century] 2 bifolia (the second bisected laterally), each leaf approximately 350mm. by 205mm., single column, 39 lines of fine and rounded Italian gothic bookhand, written space 235mm. by 135mm., capitals touched in red, rubrics in red, each section opening with a large initial and 3 lines of ornamental capitals touched in red, 2 large initials in red infilled and encased within tightly scrolling red and black penwork, one very large initial in green heightened with white penwork dots and circles on vivid red and orange grounds with blue acanthus leaf sprays, terminating in scrolls of acanthus in margin (finding close parallels in manuscripts of the late thirteenth century: see Dix Siècles d’Enluminure Italienne, 1984, no.36, illustrated p.48, and Palladino, Treasures of a Lost Art, 2003, nos.3d-f, pp.10-11), recovered from bindings with scuffing and flaking from initials, large loss of section of outer border of first bifolium (approximately 90mm. by 45mm.) with slight affect to some lines of text, stains, holes and with large areas of text still covered by paper, sixteenth- or seventeenth-century inscription “Cardinalii Gaberella” on first bifolium, overall fair condition
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