Accession number
MS M.490
Object title
Regula of St. Augustine and other works.
Display Date
Mar. 24, 1556.
Created
Italy, possibly Modena, Mar. 24, 1556.
Binding
Original Modenese brown morocco over boards; gilt-tooled, 2 clasps; stamp of the Augustinian nunnery of San Gimignano near Modena; on upper cover, d'Este arms: in a circle a shield with a charge keys in saltire, surmounted by a tiara, the letters A or RF between shield and cirlce.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1913.
Description
82 leaves (2 columns, 38-39 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 290 x 200 mm
Provenance
Probably commissioned for San Gimignano during the rule of Alfonso II d'Este (his arms on the binding); no. 742 in a 19th century collection (paper label pasted inside upper cover); purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from A Sambon in Mar. 1913; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. written and decorated in Italy, perhaps in or near Modena, and dated 1556 in the colophon on fol. 77v.
Texts: Regula S. Augustini, with exposition by Hugh of Saint-Victor (fol. 1-68); Quando la madre crare aliquam novam religiosam (fol. 68-73v); Quando la madre crare aliquam novam religiosam (fol. 73v-77); Septem opere principali de la penitentia (fol. 78-81); Modo de osservarsi in far professe le nostre sorelle converse (fol. 81v-82).
Scribe: Fra Jeronimo; colophon on fol. 77v reads: pregareti per me peccatore frate Ieremino scriptor da corte maggiore de lordine de francesco observante finita a 24 marco del 1556.
Decoration: penwork initials.
Texts: Regula S. Augustini, with exposition by Hugh of Saint-Victor (fol. 1-68); Quando la madre crare aliquam novam religiosam (fol. 68-73v); Quando la madre crare aliquam novam religiosam (fol. 73v-77); Septem opere principali de la penitentia (fol. 78-81); Modo de osservarsi in far professe le nostre sorelle converse (fol. 81v-82).
Scribe: Fra Jeronimo; colophon on fol. 77v reads: pregareti per me peccatore frate Ieremino scriptor da corte maggiore de lordine de francesco observante finita a 24 marco del 1556.
Decoration: penwork initials.
Script
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Language
Latin and Italian
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