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1054 - LOMBARDUS, Petrus Bifolio of the "Sententiae" with a large historiated initial. England (probably Oxford or Cambridge) late 13th c In all 32,7 x 42,6 cm, being 4 pages, 32,7 x 21,3 cm, vellum, sm. regular Gothic bookhand on double column of 50 lines each, capitals in blue and red pen (few stains along central vow strengthened at bottom). Under passe-partout. Important leaf with an historiated initial of 9 lines, in full colour and burnished gold, showing the Annunciation in a style similar to that of Bodleian MS. Laud Misc. 702. 2 important comments by a sl. later hand in the margins. The Sentences of Peter Lombard (d. 1160), bishop of Paris, was the earliest systematic division of theological knowledge into ordered subject headings (cf. Sotheby's catalogue, p. 49). Prov. Sotheby's, 24.6.1980, lot 59 (the incomplete manuscript being disbound afterwards, with 4 more 18th-20th-c. provenances). - Dutch private collection. Ref. Miniaturen en monnikenwerk. Middeleeuwse manuscripten uit een Brabantse collectie, exh. cat., Tilburg, 1999, n. 27.
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LOMBARDUS, Petrus Bifolio of the "Sententiae" with a large historiated initial. England (probably Oxford or Cambridge) late 13th c In all 32,7 x 42,6 cm, being 4 pages, 32,7 x 21,3 cm, vellum, sm. regular Gothic bookhand on double column of 50 lines each, capitals in blue and red pen (few stains along central vow strengthened at bottom). Under passe-partout. Important leaf with an historiated initial of 9 lines, in full colour and burnished gold, showing the Annunciation in a style similar to that of Bodleian MS. Laud Misc. 702. 2 important comments by a sl. later hand in the margins. The Sentences of Peter Lombard (d. 1160), bishop of Paris, was the earliest systematic division of theological knowledge into ordered subject headings (cf. Sotheby's catalogue, p. 49). Prov. Sotheby's, 24.6.1980, lot 59 (the incomplete manuscript being disbound afterwards, with 4 more 18th-20th-c. provenances). - Dutch private collection. Ref. Miniaturen en monnikenwerk. Middeleeuwse manuscripten uit een Brabantse collectie, exh. cat., Tilburg, 1999, n. 27.
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