Accession number
MS M.474
Object title
Canzionere (MS M.474).
Display Date
ca. 1520.
Created
Italy, probably Rome, ca. 1520.
Binding
Ca. 1520 Italian black morocco over beveled wooden boards, tooled in gold, originally with four leather clasps, one remaining.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1911.
Description
139 leaves (1 column, 29-30 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 286 x 170 mm
Provenance
Owned by Marco Antonio Altieri (1450-1532) (inscription ...lteriorum delitiis M. Antonius Alterius D.D. in architectural frame on vellum leaf opposite first page of text), library no.: III.b.4 appears on fol. 139v and on back pastedown written in a 16th-century hand; Eugène Piot; his sale (Paris, June 1, 1891, I, no. 511) to Baron Roger Portalis (1841-1912); Rudolphe Kann (Catalogue I, 1907, no. 71); Harvey Frost (Quaritch); Tammaro De Marinis; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Alexandre Imbert in 1911; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. written and illuminated in Italy, probably in Rome, ca. 1520.
Decoration: illuminated frontispiece, which was commissioned by Marco Antonio Altieri (1450-1532) to replace the original fol. 1, which is now in the Biblioteca civica di Trieste.
Decoration: illuminated frontispiece, which was commissioned by Marco Antonio Altieri (1450-1532) to replace the original fol. 1, which is now in the Biblioteca civica di Trieste.
Script
Italic chancery script
Language
Italian
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