Accession number:
MS M.480
Title:
Poesie.
Created:
Italy, between 1475 and 1480.
Binding:
Italian 18th-century paper boards.
Credit:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1911.
Description:
93 leaves (1 column, 30 lines), bound : paper ; 220 x 150 mm
Provenance:
Eighteenth century Italian label pasted on spine with shelfmark F.VIII 13 (the same label as on Pierpont Morgan Library. MS M.479); purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Alexandre Imbert in 1911; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes:
Ms. written in Italy between 1475 and 1480.
Texts: Rappresentazione di Abraham e di Isaac (fol. 1-10v); Rappresentazione delle decollatione di Sancto Giovanni Battista (fol. 11-22v); Rappresentazione dell'annunziazione di nostra Donna (fol. 23-31); Laude (fo. 31-90v).
The running-dog watermark on many leaves is close to Briquet 3612, which is dated to Palermo, 1457; Udine, 1459; and Fabriano, 1478.
Script:
humanistic cursive
Language:
Italian
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