Accession number
MS M.824
Object title
L'Acerba.
Display Date
between 1375 and 1399.
Created
Siena, Italy, between 1375 and 1399.
Binding
14th-century wooden boards with 1/4 deerskin, rebacked; clasps missing.
Description
82 leaves (1 column, 36 lines), bound : paper ; 310 x 215 mm
Provenance
Leo S. Olschki; Giuseppe Martini Collection, Lugano; H.P. Kraus (catalogue 44, 1948, no. 58); purchased from Kraus in Jan. 1948.
Notes
Ms. encyclopedia in verse; written in Siena, Italy, in the late 14th century.
Paper watermark is similar to Briquet 15807 (Bologna, 1420); 15808 (Reggio-Emilia, 1422-28; Mantua, 1422); and Zonghi 748-751 (dated between 1381-1412).
Scribe: Ghinoccio di Tommè di Ugolino d'Alegretto of Siena, signed in the colophon on fol. 78v: finito illibro di cieccho dascholy al quale idio abby misericordia Amen Amen Amen Amen Quy scrissit scribat semper chum domino uiuat Ghinoccius de allegretty de civitate senarum.
Paper watermark is similar to Briquet 15807 (Bologna, 1420); 15808 (Reggio-Emilia, 1422-28; Mantua, 1422); and Zonghi 748-751 (dated between 1381-1412).
Scribe: Ghinoccio di Tommè di Ugolino d'Alegretto of Siena, signed in the colophon on fol. 78v: finito illibro di cieccho dascholy al quale idio abby misericordia Amen Amen Amen Amen Quy scrissit scribat semper chum domino uiuat Ghinoccius de allegretty de civitate senarum.
Script
semi-gothic minuscule
Language
Italian and Latin
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