Historiated initial R on a leaf from an ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM, of Guido de Baysio, Rosarium . [Bologna, 14th century]. 1 leaf, 424 x 250 mm. (16 5/8 x 9 7/8 in.), written in brown ink in a rounded gothic script, double columns of 81 lines, justification (320 x 180 mm.), contemporary corrections in margins, one small pen-flourished Lombard initial, capitals touched with yellow; initial R in blue, pink and orange on a burnished gold ground (53 x 53 mm.), within it a bishop wearing a blue cloak over an orange garment, holding a book and gesturing to a tonsured cleric in a brown robe standing facing him; three-quarter border of blue roundels and gold dots with stylized leaves predominantly in shades of blue and orange; in the lower border, a medallion containing the bust of a bald bearded man against a ground of burnished gold; above this, the standing figure of a tonsured cleric wearing a blue vestment and pointing to the book he is holding. Some rubbing of colors and gold; some rubbing of text; a few small wormholes, three touching letters; around the edges, traces of adhesive from a previous mounting; tipped to a velvet backing . The Apparatus ad decretum , or Rosarium , of Guido de Baysio is a compendium of canon law that includes the works of commentators not used in the glossa ordinaria on the Decretum of Gratian and also selections from commentaries written after the compilation of the glossa ordinaria . It was completed on 24 January 1300, and its author died before 11 July 1311. The Rosarium immediately became a subject of study in the schools, was widely copied in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and was among the works listed as being available from the stationers of Bologna in the later Middle Ages. Guido, who taught canon law at the university of Bologna, was made archdeacon of Bologna in 1296, and ended his life in the service of the popes at Avignon. As a canonist he was known as Archidiaconus , the source of the siglum Arch . by which he was cited in works of canon law. On this leaf he is depicted in the space between the columns, clothed in the vestment of his office and pointing to his book. The older man in the medallion may represent his teacher Guido da Suzzara, and it is probable that the bishop in the initial is Cardinal Gerardo Bianchi, Bishop of Sabina, to whom the work is dedicated and whose chaplain Guido was. PROVENANCE Probable shelf marks (17th cent.?): 60 in upper margin; 326 in lower margin.
Historiated initial R on a leaf from an ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM, of Guido de Baysio, Rosarium . [Bologna, 14th century]. 1 leaf, 424 x 250 mm. (16 5/8 x 9 7/8 in.), written in brown ink in a rounded gothic script, double columns of 81 lines, justification (320 x 180 mm.), contemporary corrections in margins, one small pen-flourished Lombard initial, capitals touched with yellow; initial R in blue, pink and orange on a burnished gold ground (53 x 53 mm.), within it a bishop wearing a blue cloak over an orange garment, holding a book and gesturing to a tonsured cleric in a brown robe standing facing him; three-quarter border of blue roundels and gold dots with stylized leaves predominantly in shades of blue and orange; in the lower border, a medallion containing the bust of a bald bearded man against a ground of burnished gold; above this, the standing figure of a tonsured cleric wearing a blue vestment and pointing to the book he is holding. Some rubbing of colors and gold; some rubbing of text; a few small wormholes, three touching letters; around the edges, traces of adhesive from a previous mounting; tipped to a velvet backing . The Apparatus ad decretum , or Rosarium , of Guido de Baysio is a compendium of canon law that includes the works of commentators not used in the glossa ordinaria on the Decretum of Gratian and also selections from commentaries written after the compilation of the glossa ordinaria . It was completed on 24 January 1300, and its author died before 11 July 1311. The Rosarium immediately became a subject of study in the schools, was widely copied in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and was among the works listed as being available from the stationers of Bologna in the later Middle Ages. Guido, who taught canon law at the university of Bologna, was made archdeacon of Bologna in 1296, and ended his life in the service of the popes at Avignon. As a canonist he was known as Archidiaconus , the source of the siglum Arch . by which he was cited in works of canon law. On this leaf he is depicted in the space between the columns, clothed in the vestment of his office and pointing to his book. The older man in the medallion may represent his teacher Guido da Suzzara, and it is probable that the bishop in the initial is Cardinal Gerardo Bianchi, Bishop of Sabina, to whom the work is dedicated and whose chaplain Guido was. PROVENANCE Probable shelf marks (17th cent.?): 60 in upper margin; 326 in lower margin.
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