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| | New York, New York Public Library, Spencer Collection,
NYPL Spencer 030 | | Description: ff. 322 - Original binding of brown leather over wooden boards, line tooled in blind and stamped with interlaced work. In a green morocco case by Riviere. - Coat of arms f. 1 unidentified. Sold by Olschki to Edward A. Parsons, who parted with it in 1932. Sold by Sotheby's (London 1933) to Goodyear. Accessioned by Spencer, 1933. - De Ricci, 1341-2. Dictionary Catalog, Spencer Collection, 906. - Jonathan J. G. Alexander, James H. Marrow and Lucy Freeman Sandler, The Splendor of the Word: Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts at the New York Public Library(London / Turnhout: The New York Public Library / Harvey Miller Publishers, 2005) n. 95. | | Acknowledgments: - We thank Prof. Jonathan J. G. Alexander for his extensive work towards the present description of this manuscript. | | Number of Parts: 1 - Number of Images Available: 2 | | Direct Link: http://ds.lib.berkeley.edu/NYPLSpencer030_42 | | Language: Latin Country: Italy Century: 15th |
| | Part 1: ff. 1-322v | | Description: - Parchment - 390 x 280 mm - 40 long lines per page. Prickmarks and catchwords visible. 32 quires of ten folios each, followed by one quire of two folios. | | Country: Italy | Cardinal point: | | Region: Tuscany | City: Florence | | Assigned Date: s. XV3/4 | Searchable Date Range: 1450 - 1475 | | Dated by scribe: No | Inscribed Date: | | Document: No | Number of Scribes: ;1? | | Scribe(s): Gianfrancesco Marzi | | Script: Humanistic | | Artist(s): Bartolomeo di Domenico di Guido | | Figurative Decoration: Historiated initials and borders, figures of cherubs and animals in borders, portraits in roundels. | | Other Decoration: Large gold initials with white vinestem; white vinestem border. Roman capitals. | | Notes: Dated to ca. 1470. Attribution of scribe made by Dr. A. C. de la Mare in comparison with Spencer 27 (which is signed by the scribe Marzi). Latin | | Number of Texts: 1 |
| | Text 1: ff. 1-322 | | Author: Augustine | | Title: De civitate Dei | | Language(s): Latin | | Incipit: Glorisissimam civitatem dei sive in hoc temporum cursu cum inter impios peregrinatur | ![Not Available]()
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Opening of text, with historiated initial of Augustine holding his book, white vinestem border with cherubs and portraits, coat of arms (unidentified).
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| f. 1v
Augustine writing in a landscape before a vision of Florence as the City of God; in the lower margin, a blindfolded woman turning a millstone, representing the Mystic Mill, and a putto with a banner with the letters, "QUDOUSNO"; white vine stem.
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