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• Manuscript, in several hands, on parchment, with three inserted paper leaves containing a chapter index, containing Gregory I's Dialogi de vita, in four books, and Saint Bonaventure's Legenda minor and Legenda maior detailing the life of Saint Francis of Assisi.
• Ex libris F.R.C. Ex libris Wigan Public Library. Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd. (Bonham's sale of Early Printing and English Books to 1640, London 2012 October 2, lot 111) on the Frederick W. Liebert Fund, 2012.
• Script: Southern Semi-Textualis Libraria. Brown ink, with slightly later additions in black ink.
• Decoration: five illuminated initials introducing each book, with figurated extensions containing portrait medallions in the lower margins. Rubricated with initials in red and blue pen throughout.
• Binding: late 14th or early 15th century. Full brown calf over wooden boards, blind-tooled with geometric lines in diamond pattern with four small round stamps at the corners of each board, each containing a shield. Five-compartment spine (some loss on spine); first and final flyleaves most likely originally served as pastedowns.
• Gregory I, Dialogi de vita et miraculis patrum italicorum. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Subjects:

• Benedict, Saint, Abbot of Monte Cassino.
• Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, approximately 1217-1274.
• Francis, of Assisi, Saint, 1182-1226.
• Gregory I, Pope, approximately 540-604.
• Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval.
• Manuscripts, Medieval -- Connecticut -- New Haven.
• Saints -- Biography.
• Saints -- Early works to 1800.
• Saints -- Legends.
• Manuscripts, Medieval -- Italy -- 14th century.
• Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.

Added entry:

• Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, approximately 1217-1274.