Accession number:
MS B.53
Title:
Sermones de tempore
Created:
Tuscany, Italy, February 3, 1400.
Binding:
17th century blind-tooled brown morocco.
Credit:
Bequest of Curt F. Bühler; 1985.
Description:
158 leaves (2 columns, 43 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 330 x 230 mm
Provenance:
Purchased by Curt F. Bühler in May 1967 from Lathrop C. Harper, New York (Cat. 26, no. 259).
Notes:
Ms. written and decorated in Tuscany, signed by by an Honofrius, son of Johannes de Luca, and dated Feb. 3, 1400.
Translated by Giovanni da Tossignano.
Scribe: at least three scribes worked on this manuscript and the one now known as Pierpont Morgan Library. MS B.52; the last scribe has signed himself Honofrius, son of Johannes de Luca, and dated the manuscript: Hoc opus scriptum est per me Honofrium filium Johannes de Luca mensis Februarii die tertio MCCCC.
Decoration: numerous filigree initials.
Script:
textura
Language:
Italian
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