Calendar for July and August

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Rendell Catalog 148, no. 90

Unknown

Kenneth W. Rendell, Autograph Letters, Manuscripts, and Documents, Catalogue 148 (1979), no. 90.

Calendar for July and August

Incipit recto: Terdecimus Julii decimo innuit ante Kalendas
Explicit, verso: Cuspida prima ferit quod septima perdere querit

Single leaf,, fragment; parchment, bottom margin trimmed : 205 x 200 (163 x 143) mm

Script: Gothic textualis rotunda in long lines, in two columns of 30 lines

Decoration, recto: 1 three-line initial with foliate forms extending into the lateral and upper margins; verso: 1 four-line initial with foliate forms extending into the lateral and upper margins

Giorgio d'Alemagna (active 1441-1479) and others

Ferrara, Italy

Latin

1441-1448

Leonello d'Este (1407-1450), Marchese of Ferrara, patron; John Allan Rolls, 1st Baron Llangattock (1837 – 1912), former owner; Kenneth W. Rendell (1943-); Private Collection, California; Freeman's/Hindman, 27 June 2024, Lot no. 0036A.

Text: Calendar

Debra Taylor Cashion, in The Burke Collection of Italian Manuscripts Paintings, ed. S. Hindman and F. Toniolo, 2021, no. 32, pp. 322-331.

Kenneth W. Rendell, Autograph Letters, Manuscripts, and Documents, Catalogue 148 (1979), no. 90.