Accession number
MS G.22
Object title
Tusculanarum disputationum (MS G.22).
Created
Florence, Italy, ca. 1460.
Binding
Original Florentine blind-stamped brown goatskin over boards.
Credit line
Gift of the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection, 1984.
Description
178 leaves (1 column, 25 lines), vellum : vellum, ill. 213 x 139 mm
Provenance
Antoine Augustin Renouard; his sale, Paris, L. Potier, Nov. 20, 1854, lot 886; Ambroise Firmin-Didot; his sale, Paris, Maurice Delestre, May 26, 1879, lot 40; Fürstlich Liechtensteinsche Fideikommissbibliothek, Vienna; purchased in Oct. 1953 from William H. Schab, New York for William S. Glazier (1907-1962), New York; deposited in the Pierpont Morgan Library by the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection in 1963.
Notes
Ms. written and illuminated in Florence, Italy, ca. 1460.
Scribe: identified by Albina de la Mare as Sinibaldus C.--Cf. PML files.
Decoration: 5 illuminated white-vine initials with marginal extenders.
Scribe: identified by Albina de la Mare as Sinibaldus C.--Cf. PML files.
Decoration: 5 illuminated white-vine initials with marginal extenders.
Script
humanistica rotunda.
Language
Latin
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