Accession number
MS M.1219
Object title
Exsequiarum Ordo.
Created
Italy, Milan, 23 April 1512
Binding
Vellum, after 1690 (date of a reused document serving as endpapers).
Credit line
Gift of William M. Voelkle in honor of Jonathan J.G. Alexander, 2021.
Description
36 pages (1 column, 16 lines) : vellum ; 165 x 123 (118 x 80 ) mm (6 1/2 x 5 inches)
Provenance
De Graaf Antiquarian Booksellers, Nieuwkoop, The Netherlands, “A Short-Title List: 175 Books Exhibited at the 28th New York International Antiquarian Book Fair, 1988, no. 123”; bought from De Graaf by N. & N. Pavlov, Dobbs Ferry, New York; bought from Pavlov by William M. Voelkle, 1988.
Notes
This manuscript is important as it provides the name of one of the most important Renaissance scribes of the Sforza court. The hitherto unidentified scribe was responsible for two of manuscripts made for the education of a Renaissance prince in Milan, namely the celebrated Grammar of Donatus and the Liber Iesus, both made for Massimiliano Sforza, eldest son of Ludovico Sforza, duke of Milan. This is his only known work with a colophon: "Iohannes Baptista de Laurentiis mediolanensis scripsit die 23 aprillis 1512" (p. XXXVI.)
Scribe: Giovanni Battista Lorenzi (Iohannes Baptista Laurentiis)
7 pages with musical notation; 44 decorated initials in green, red, or blue.
This is the first (part of a) Rituale to enter the collection.
Scribe: Giovanni Battista Lorenzi (Iohannes Baptista Laurentiis)
7 pages with musical notation; 44 decorated initials in green, red, or blue.
This is the first (part of a) Rituale to enter the collection.
Script
Humanist script
Language
Latin
Century
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