Accession number:
MS M.247
Title:
De duobus amantibus Euriolo et Lucretia
Created:
Bamberg, Germany, late 15th century.
Binding:
Speckled calf.
Credit:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1906.
Description:
29 leaves, bound : paper ; 210 x 150 mm
Provenance:
No. 785 in a 19th century Belgian or German catalogue; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) around 1906; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes:
Ms.; written in Bamberg, Germany, late 15th century.
The watermark (Briquet 11.799) is found in a Bamberg document of 1460; colophon on fol. 29 gives place and date of the original composition: Vale ex wyena 5to nonas iulij anno domini 1444.
Ms. may be a copy from an unidentified printed edition; pagination and number of lines correspond to one listed by Hain (Repertorium, 1826-1838, no. *219).
Script:
German cursive script
Language:
Latin
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