Gold capitals, uncials and Caroline in gold and purple
frame, with large gold, purple and green initial. Strip of vellum
written in later hand sewn into manuscript lies across the
page.
Gold uncial and caroline on purple background within gold
frame. Text for Feast of the Circumcision/Purification. Large
initial. Strip of vellum in later hand lying across page.
Opening of main text, large initial with penwork, small
initial and placefinder, name of book in blue and red. Biblical
text written larger than commentary.
Opening of main text. Large initial in many colors showing
Jerome as scribe. Rubric, placemarkers, book name and chapter
numbers in red and blue. Hands drawn in margin as pointers.
Page of text with 4-line red and blue initial with penwork,
chapter number and book name in red and blue, pale yellow daubs
as placemarkers, and quire number and catchword.
Page of text with large red/blue, multi-colored and
illuminated initials. Rubrics etc. Marginal note indicates that
second prologue to Joel may be read in back of book, after
interpretation of Hebrew names.
Large opening initial showing Jerome as scribe, extending
far into border. 2-line red and blue initials with penwork.
Placemarkers, chapter numbers. Note of ownership in upper
margin.
Opening of text, large initial with Jerome as scribe and
elaborate extension into border. Small initials with penwork,
rubrics, placemarkers, book name and chapter numbers in red and
blue.
Opening of text with large initial, rubric, full border
design, small initials with penwork, placemarkers, name of book
and chapter number in red and blue. Later note and library
stamp.
Opening of Genesis with large puzzle initial and elaborate
penwork, placemarkers, 1-line initials, book and chapter number
in red and blue, marginal note.
Full-page miniature of the first vision including John
writing on Patmos and the Son of Man amongst the seven
candlesticks. Text with initials and placemarkers.
Full-page miniature of fifth vision, including worshipping
beast from the sea and two-horned animal instructing people to
worship the beast. Text with initials and placemarkers.
Notes in modern hand and coat of arms of the abbey of
Citeaux.
Shelfmark:
De Ricci Ms. 016
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Folio:
f. 1
Caption:
Incipit of text, rubric, music, red and blue initials.
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Folio:
f. 6v
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6-line green initial on gold field with vines and flowers in
border, music and small initials.
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Folio:
f. 7v
Caption:
Explicit of this part.
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Folio:
f. 8
Caption:
Opening of part 2. Hand 1(?), large initial with miniature
of Virgin and Child. Red and blue initials, rubrics and
placemarkers. Border design and coat of arms.
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Folio:
f. 9
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Initial with illumination, red and blue initials, border
design, rubrics and placemarkers.
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Folio:
f. 10v
Caption:
Large initial on gold fields, border design, rubrics, small
initials, placemarkers, quire signature?.
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Folio:
f. 11
Caption:
Miniature. New hand? Small initials and placemarkers.
Incipit part three. Large illuminated initial on gold field.
Rubrics, smaller initials (one with human face sketched in)
music, placemarkers, border design.
Page of text with red initial and illuminated painted
initial with animal head. Note also stub of music folio -- stub
of other half of part 1, which may originally have served as
cover for quire 1.
Opening of text with large painted initial including
stylized animal figures. Blue initial with red penwork. Rubric;
book name and chapter number in red and blue.
Opening of main text. Large painted initial showing Jerome
as scribe extending far into border with animal figures. Red and
blue initials with penwork. Rubric. Book name and chapter
number.
Chart showing the solar system with earth at the center. It
is surrounded by four grotesques, on blue, red, green and gold
field. Text with placemarkers.
On f. 141v, exagerated adiuration formula (parody?) and
charms against the falling sickness, the bite of rabid dogs, to
help sick animals or humans with toothache; on pastedown,
elaborate dating for 1262, with the 12th episcopal year of
Reginald of Paris.
Chart showing months and zodiacal signs. 3 animal and two
human figures, on red, blue and gold field. Text with
placemarkers and interlinear notations.
Miniature with human and animal figures on gold, blue and
red field, including the serpent biting its own tail (as per the
text). Three-line red initial with elaborate blue penwork
including frog's eggs. Placemarker.
Chart with four animal figures, on blue, red and gold field.
Three-line blue initial with elaborate red penwork extending far
into border, including frog's eggs. Placemarker.
Chart showing zodiacal signs and phases of the moon, with
two animal figures, on blue, red, gold and green field. Four-line
red initial with blue penwork extending far into border,
including frog's eggs. Placemarkers.
Chart surrounded by four animal figures, on red, blue, green
and gold field. Three-line blue initial with red penwork
extending far into border, including frog's eggs.
Placemarker.
Historiated initial if seated man holding a sphere, and
opening of the De Sphaera. Opening of text on pink field.
Three-line red initial with blue penwork extending into border,
including frog's eggs. Rubric, placemarkers.
Chart showing solar system with the spheres as concentric
circles, having earth at the center, surrounded by one human and
three animal figures, on blue, gold, and red field.
Placemarker.
Chart of the climatic zones, with the "zona torida" in the
center and the poles at the extremes, surrounded by four animal
figures, on red, gold and blue field. Text with
placemarker.
Figure showing a lunar eclipse, with shadow cone. Three-line
blue initial with red penwork extending far into the border,
including frog's eggs. Placemarkers.
Historiated initial of a cleric [sic] handing a round
bread to a girl, with opening of the Cautele. 2-line red and
blue initials with opposing-color penwork. Placemarkers.
Change of hands: hand 1 on f. 9v, hand 2 on f. 10. Initials,
rubrics, placemarkers. 1 woodcut on f. 9v, of Christ nailed to
the Cross. 3 woodcuts on f. 10 (St. Paul; Guardian Angels; St.
Catherine)
Opening of the text, with historiated initial of holy man
kneeling in prayer in a landscape; with rubrics, placemarkers and
elaborate border design that includes the XPS monogram.
Opening of main text, initial with Annunciation, small
initial, rubrics and border design with two roundels containing
portrait of Virgin and Child, and "Yhs".
Opening of text. 5-line initial on gold showing
Annunciation, with vines extending into border. 2-line initial on
gold with many colors. Rubrics. 1-line initial with
penwork.
Elaborate initial and border decoration. Fourth line of text
and music are replaced by five lines of smaller text. This
happens occasionally throughout, perhaps to save space.
Large historiated initial showing the Adoration of the Magi,
on gold field, with three-side border showing donors, animals,
flowers, and other scenes (including figures of Jacob Engbrechtsz
and Margriet Gerritsdr.).
Large historiated initial showing the Resurrection, on gold
field. Three-side border showing donor? (Willem van Schooten),
coats of arms, birds, flowers, insects, and other scenes.
Large historiated initial showing the Ascension of Christ,
on gold field. Three-side border, including a scene of Augustine
and the Christ child with various onlookers at the seaside,
birds, flowers, and insects.
Large historiated initial showing the Virgin and the
Apostles, on gold field. Full border including miniature,
flowers, human figures, banners, birds, and grotesques.
Large historiated initial showing the Trinity, on gold
field, with three-side border including miniature showing two
people before Adrianus, birds, insects, human figures, and
flowers.
Large historiated initial, showing the Nativity, on gold
field. Three-sided border showing angels, donors? (Jan
Ghijsbrechtszn and his wife), birds, flowers.
Third map of Europe (France and Belgium). Full gold border.
Commentary text in green border, with gold rubrics and 4-line
gold initial on green, pink and blue field.
Opening of text, two-line gold initial on blue and green
field with flourish in border, red and blue initials, rubrics,
placemarkers. Coat of arms. Note that ink has run somewhat.
Opening of text. Large illuminated initial (Christ in
Majesty), smaller initials in various colors and in red/blue.
Rubrics and placemarkers. Border decoration including animals and
insects.
Page of text with 1-line blue and gold initials with red and
blue penwork, 2-line initials on gold fields decorated with
flowers and grotesque, and border decoration.
Opening of Gospel of Matthew. Section of parchment around
the large initial has been cut out -- text of next folio is
visible through the hole. Rustic capitals.
Text with note of ownership and warning by monastery of St.
Martin of Tournai -- "Liber sancti martini tornacii servantii
benedictio auferenti maledictio amen." Prickings clearly
visible.
Beginning of main text; 5-line initial with elaborate puzzle
work and penwork in border. 2-line initial with penwork. Smaller
initials. Book name and chapter name. Red daubs as sentence
markers.
Opening of text in part two. Large initial with long tail,
including human and animal figures. Rubric, name of book, and red
placemarkers. Marginal notes.
Opening of text (Ad te levavi animam meam) with 11-line
puzzle initial with elaborate penwork extending the length of the
left border, and into bottom margin. Small initials and
rubrics.
6-line blue initial on gold field, with flower design
extending into border. Miniature of King David. Two lines of
music. Rubrics, small initials, placemarkers.
Opening of main text. Large initial on gold field with
miniature of Virgin and Child. Multi-colored border design with
human figure. 2-line and 1-line initials, rubrics and
placemarkers.
Large initial with miniature and grotesques. Full border
design. Coat of arms. Blue rubric. Opening of De officiis. Stamp
of library of Antoine Moriau.
Opening of text with 5-line initial with puzzle design,
rubric, and 3-line initial. Ex libris of J.B.P.H. Caque. Quire
letter and foliation in lower margin.
Explicit of text, with colophon indicating date. Fact that
year is left blank may indicate that dating clause (referring to
death of Pope and Duke) was copied from exemplar.
