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Catalogo importanti NY DEFI_Cataloghino NY 31/03/2010 4.27 Pagina 1 I [ΨΑΛΤΉΡΙΟΝ (Greek Psalter)]. Illuminated manuscript on vellum. [Costantinople, 11th-century (not after 1086)]. Manuscript on vellum (mm 214x170). 320 leaves. Complete. Written in single columns of 17 lines; justification c. mm 140x90. Rounded Greek script (Perlschrift). The text is written in golden ink, now burnished. Three decorative headpieces finely painted in gold and colours. 15th-16th century medieval Greek binding of stamped leather over wooden boards. From the collections of Vice-Abbot Gervasius of Trebizond, Marcus Beza, Sir Sydney Cockerell and Brian S. Cron. Extraordinary Greek psalter, produced in Costantinople in the 11th-cen- tury, beautifully decorated and perfectly preserved in an early binding. The note on leaf 320v, which is not written in the scribe’s hand, provides the earliest reference point for the history of the manuscript referring to an empress, probably Mary of Alania, who took the veil 9 March 1086. The psalter itself obviously belonged originally to someone close to the imperial house. Catalogo importanti NY DEFI_Cataloghino NY 31/03/2010 4.27 Pagina 2 II ALDOBRANDINO da Siena. Régime du corps, translated in Italian. An interpolated version of the translation realized in May 1310 by the Florentine notary Zucchero Bencivenni. Manuscript on paper, Tuscany, end of the 14th century. Folio, mm 280x195, 56 leaves [numb. 1-51 in ink by a contemporary hand, 4 blanks), slightly later boards. Written in an fine umanistica corsiva, by 2 or 3 different hands, one foliated initial in red and brown ink, this manuscript is divided in 4 parts: 1) Régime.
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