Accession number
MS B.49
Object title
Scala paradisi (MS B.49).
Display Date
April 2, 1447.
Created
San Blasio, Veneto, Italy, April 2, 1447.
Binding
18th-century Italian diced russia.
Credit line
Bequest of Curt F. Bühler; 1985.
Description
112 leaves (1 column, 36 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 250 x 170 mm
Provenance
Soranzo Library, Venice; Thomas Thorpe, London; Sir Thomas Phillipps (ms. 9433); his sale, London, Sotheby's, June 6, 1910, lot 202; purchased by Curt F. Bühler in Dec. 1966 from H.P. Kraus, New York (cat. 44, no. 118; Cat. 80, no. 24; cat. 115, no. 7).
Notes
Ms. of Johannes Climacus's Scala paradisi; written and decorated in San Blasio, the Veneto, Italy, dated Apr. 2, 1447.
Decoration: numerous filigree initials.
Decoration: numerous filigree initials.
Script
textura
Language
Italian
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