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1054 - LOMBARDUS, Petrus. Bifolio of the "Sententiae" with a large historiated initial. England (probably Oxford or Cambridge), late 13th century. Overall dimensions: 32.7 x 42.6 cm, comprising 4 pages, 32.7 x 21.3 cm, vellum, small regular Gothic bookhand in a double column of 50 lines each, capitals in blue and red pen (a few stains along the central vowel, reinforced at the bottom). Mounted on a passe-partout. Important leaf featuring a 9-line historiated initial, in full color and burnished gold, depicting the Annunciation in a style similar to that of Bodleian MS. Laud Misc. 702. Two important comments by a slightly later hand in the margins. The Sentences of Peter Lombard (d. 1160), Bishop of Paris, represented the earliest systematic division of theological knowledge into ordered subject headings (cf. Sotheby’s catalog, p. 49). Previously at Sotheby’s, June 24, 1980, lot 59 (the incomplete manuscript was subsequently unbound, with four additional 18th–20th-century provenances). - Dutch private collection. Ref. Miniatures and Monastic Art: Medieval Manuscripts from a Brabant Collection, exhibition catalog, Tilburg, 1999, no. 27.
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LOMBARDUS, Petrus. Bifolio of the "Sententiae" with a large historiated initial. England (probably Oxford or Cambridge), late 13th century. Overall dimensions: 32.7 x 42.6 cm, comprising 4 pages, 32.7 x 21.3 cm, vellum, small regular Gothic bookhand in a double column of 50 lines each, capitals in blue and red pen (a few stains along the central vowel, reinforced at the bottom). Mounted on a passe-partout. Important leaf featuring a 9-line historiated initial, in full color and burnished gold, depicting the Annunciation in a style similar to that of Bodleian MS. Laud Misc. 702. Two important comments by a slightly later hand in the margins. The Sentences of Peter Lombard (d. 1160), Bishop of Paris, represented the earliest systematic division of theological knowledge into ordered subject headings (cf. Sotheby’s catalog, p. 49). Previously at Sotheby’s, June 24, 1980, lot 59 (the incomplete manuscript was subsequently unbound, with four additional 18th–20th-century provenances). - Dutch private collection. Ref. Miniatures and Monastic Art: Medieval Manuscripts from a Brabant Collection, exhibition catalog, Tilburg, 1999, no. 27.
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