Leaf from the Psalter with Passion Sequences copied by Pietro Ursuleo of Capuo, in Latin, opulently illuminated manuscript on parchment [southern Italy (Naples), c. 1460]Single leaf, with single column of 19 lines of a fine and accomplished humanist hand (with Psalm 29:7-30:12), faded red rubrics, dark blue and liquid gold capitals, one illuminated initial 'I' (opening "In te domine spera ...") enclosed within white vinework on blue, green and red grounds, later pencil marks "£2" "MS 231"(perhaps those of Tregaskis, see below) in upper outer corner, stains and splashes (with some damage to text in lowermost three lines), lower outer corner with old water damage (see below) causing offset of text from previous leaf and loss of corner (edges now professionally conserved and original corner-piece enclosed loose with leaf), overall presentable condition, 171 by 26mm.The parent manuscript was one of two sister volumes (the other now Trinity College, Cambridge, MS O.7.46), copied by the scribe Pietro Ursuleo (d. 1483), bishop of Satarino and elevated on his deathbed to archbishop of Santa Severina, and perhaps illuminated by Matteo Felice or a member of his workshop. It must have been copied for a patron in Ravenna, and later was in the possession of John Boykett Jarman (d. 1864), and probably damaged by the flood that affected his manuscript collection (the parent manuscript was his sale in Sotheby's, 13 June 1864, lot 161). The book was still intact in 1913 (Tregaskis cat. 743, no. 510), but beginning to be broken in the years that followed (initially Tregaskis cat. 777, 1916, no. 81, 4 leaves). Other leaves are recorded in Margaret Manion and C. de Hamel., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in New Zealand Collections, 1989, no.89, with the colophon leaf in Canberra, National Library of Australia, MS 4052.
Leaf from the Psalter with Passion Sequences copied by Pietro Ursuleo of Capuo, in Latin, opulently illuminated manuscript on parchment [southern Italy (Naples), c. 1460]Single leaf, with single column of 19 lines of a fine and accomplished humanist hand (with Psalm 29:7-30:12), faded red rubrics, dark blue and liquid gold capitals, one illuminated initial 'I' (opening "In te domine spera ...") enclosed within white vinework on blue, green and red grounds, later pencil marks "£2" "MS 231"(perhaps those of Tregaskis, see below) in upper outer corner, stains and splashes (with some damage to text in lowermost three lines), lower outer corner with old water damage (see below) causing offset of text from previous leaf and loss of corner (edges now professionally conserved and original corner-piece enclosed loose with leaf), overall presentable condition, 171 by 26mm.The parent manuscript was one of two sister volumes (the other now Trinity College, Cambridge, MS O.7.46), copied by the scribe Pietro Ursuleo (d. 1483), bishop of Satarino and elevated on his deathbed to archbishop of Santa Severina, and perhaps illuminated by Matteo Felice or a member of his workshop. It must have been copied for a patron in Ravenna, and later was in the possession of John Boykett Jarman (d. 1864), and probably damaged by the flood that affected his manuscript collection (the parent manuscript was his sale in Sotheby's, 13 June 1864, lot 161). The book was still intact in 1913 (Tregaskis cat. 743, no. 510), but beginning to be broken in the years that followed (initially Tregaskis cat. 777, 1916, no. 81, 4 leaves). Other leaves are recorded in Margaret Manion and C. de Hamel., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in New Zealand Collections, 1989, no.89, with the colophon leaf in Canberra, National Library of Australia, MS 4052.
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