Provenance: Fragment from a from a compilation of Psalms and Gospel readings transcribed by Pietro Ursuleo (d. 1483), Bishop of Satriano from 1474 until his appointment as Archbishop of Santa Severina on 22 February 1483, shortly before his death in April of that year.

Acquired by Sir Rex de Charembac Nan Kivell from an unrecorded source as a specimen of early calligraphy or documentation. The leaf formed part of his Calligraphic Collection, donated to the National Library of Australia in 1969.

Contents: The leaf preserves a portion of John the Evangelist 19 (36-42) followed by a colophon identifying the scribe as Pietro Ursuleo: Petrus Ursuleus scripsit. Albinia de la Mare identified the colophon leaf identifying the scribe in 1982.

Decoration: Written in a formal humanistic minuscule. Versal (1-line) in blue. The colophon is written in capitals, in alternating brown and pale red inks.

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