ALTERNATIVE TITLES – Passio Sancti Georgii. Passio Sanctae Margaretae – Preghiera alla Vergine con le Leggende di San Giorgio e Santa Margherita – Oración a la Virgen – Gebet zur Jungfrau. Legenden des Hl. Georg und der Hl. Margarete.
FEATURES – Codex on parchment, 240 x 170 mm, 84 pp.
ORIGIN – Italy: Verona (uncertain).
CHRONOLOGY – Second half of the 13th century.
FORMER OWNERS – The possession note on f. 3 (Est sancte Magdalene de Campo Martio de Verona) testifies to the provenance of the manuscript from the Monastery of St. Mary Magdalene in Verona. In 1881 the Biblioteca Civica di Verona acquired the codex.
GENRE – Christianity – Hagiographies.
CONTENTS – Preghiera alla Vergine (Prayer to the Virgin): lauda in Veronese vernacular, more precisely known as Serventese a Maria. Lives of Saint George of Cappadocia (280 ca.-303) and Saint Margaret of Antioch, also called Saint Marina the Great Martyr (275-290).
LANGUAGE – Italian; Latin.
SCRIPT – Gothic.
DECORATION – 78 miniatures.
STYLE – Gothic.

Data sheet: Illuminated Facsimiles

Prière à la Vierge

FACSIMILE EDITION

Full-size color reproduction of the entire original document. The facsimile reproduces as close as possible the codicological characteristics of the original document. The binding might not correspond to that of the original document as it appears at the present moment.

Publisher: Il Bulino edizioni d’arte (Modena, 2006).
Limited edition: 619 copies.
Commentary: Bini Daniele, Contò Agostino, Zanichelli Giuseppa.

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