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 part of last word of Psalm 93:3 to opening words of 94:1), faded red rubrics, dark blue and liquid gold capitals, one illuminated initial enclosed within white vinework on blue, green and red grounds, marks to outer edges from last mounting, small torn section from upper edge, folds to one corner, 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, with both codices 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 M.M. Manion, V.F. Vines 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. This leaf from the collection of Roger Martin (1939-2020) of Grimsby. See also lot 120.
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 part of last word of Psalm 93:3 to opening words of 94:1), faded red rubrics, dark blue and liquid gold capitals, one illuminated initial enclosed within white vinework on blue, green and red grounds, marks to outer edges from last mounting, small torn section from upper edge, folds to one corner, 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, with both codices 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 M.M. Manion, V.F. Vines 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. This leaf from the collection of Roger Martin (1939-2020) of Grimsby. See also lot 120.
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