Record ID:
112441
Accession number:
MS M.476
Title:
Livy, Decades
Created:
Naples, Italy, end of the 15th century.
Binding:
Original wooden boards and stamped leather.
Credit:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1911.
Description:
255 leaves (1 column, 35 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 390 x 270 mm
Provenance:
Arms of first owner erased from title page; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Alexandre Imbert in 1911; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes:
Ms. written and illuminated in Naples, Italy, at the end of the 15th century.
Decoration: illuminated frontispiece with white vine border; 10 illuminated white-vine initials.
Script:
minuscule
Language:
Latin
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