Accession number
MS B.40
Object title
Il Fiore di virtù (MS B.40).
Display Date
June 15, 1466.
Created
Italy, possibly Florence, June 15, 1466.
Binding
Original blind-stamped goatskin over oaken boards.
Credit line
Bequest of Curt F. Bühler, 1985.
Description
56 leaves (1 column, 26-29 lines), bound : paper ; 234 x 170 mm
Provenance
Bernardino Giovanni di Cenni Ugolini (inscription on flyleaf in contemporary hand); purchased for Curt F. Bühler at Sotheby's (London, Dec. 11, 1961, lot 166) by E.P. Goldschmidt, London.
Notes
Ms. moralized bestiary; written in Italy, possibly Florence, and completed June 15, 1466.
The manuscript is unfinished, probably by a couple of pages.--Cf. PML files.
Scribe: on the vellum flyleaf is the notice that the manuscript was written by 'Maestro Martino' and completed on June 15, 1466.
On one of the blank leaves at the end of the manuscript an Italian sonnet is written with the date 1507--Cf. PML files.
The manuscript is unfinished, probably by a couple of pages.--Cf. PML files.
Scribe: on the vellum flyleaf is the notice that the manuscript was written by 'Maestro Martino' and completed on June 15, 1466.
On one of the blank leaves at the end of the manuscript an Italian sonnet is written with the date 1507--Cf. PML files.
Script
Gothic cursive
Language
Italian
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