National Library of Sweden, A 224
Palladius, Life of John Chrysostom
Italy?, 15th century, first half.
parchment
i, 80, i' leaves
215 × 140–145 mm
Latin
Secundo folio
et laude tenereFoliation
Collation
Script
Textblock
Hand 1
Humanist minusculeAdditions
Binding/Endleaves
Textblock
Decorations
Textblock
Main text in brown ink, rubrics in red. Speakers in the dialogue marked with red capitals.
(f. 1r): plain initial D over 2 lines in blue. (f. 3r): Opening foliate initial C over 8 lines. Letter outlined in black and painted green. Letter shaped like leaves and surrounded by a half frame in pink and white placed on gold background. Counterspace filled with vegetative shapes in blue and red. The entire page is surrounded by a painted border consisting of flowers and vegetative shapes inhabited by putti, a bird, and a snail. Main colours: blue, red, green, pink, and gold. A coat of arms is found at the centre of the bottom boarder. It consists of a red lion and small yellow star on an egg shaped shield with black and white diagonal stripes. Above the shield a bishop's mitre with two white bands extending on both sides. (f. 16r) dentelle inital I over 4 lines. Letter in gold and outlined in black ink. Placed on a painted background in purple and blue with white details. Vegetative shapes, drawn in ink and painted purple and green, extend from the background into the margin. (f. 75r): dentelle initial U over 2 lines (+ extending above and below the line). Same style and colours as the first dentelle.
Edges coloured red.
Binding
Binding of unknown date. Light brown leather over wooden boards. 4 pairs of raised bands and endbands. 2 hooked clasps. Spine, ink on paper label: ‘10 14.’; stamped in gold: ‘A 224’; ink on paper label: ‘1 4:o’.
Blind tooled panel decoration.
Origin
Provenance
Early provenance unknown. The manuscript was acquired by Sparfwenfeldt and belonged to his private library. The signum ‘1 4:o’ on the Spine refers to the catalogue of 1734 (U125e) and is also mentioned in connection with Sparfwenfeldt's library, see Lillieblad (1706), p. 13. The top signum on the Spine and the signa on f. 1r are unidentified.
Acquisition
Donated by Sparfwenfeldt to the Royal Library in 1702.