Accession number
MS M.247
Object title
De duobus amantibus Euriolo et Lucretia historia.
Display Date
late 15th century.
Created
Bamberg, Germany, late 15th century.
Binding
Speckled calf.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1906.
Description
29 leaves, bound : paper ; 210 x 150 mm
Provenance
No. 785 in a 19th century Belgian or German catalogue; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) around 1906; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms.; written in Bamberg, Germany, late 15th century.
The watermark (Briquet 11.799) is found in a Bamberg document of 1460; colophon on fol. 29 gives place and date of the original composition: Vale ex wyena 5to nonas iulij anno domini 1444.
Ms. may be a copy from an unidentified printed edition; pagination and number of lines correspond to one listed by Hain (Repertorium, 1826-1838, no. *219).
The watermark (Briquet 11.799) is found in a Bamberg document of 1460; colophon on fol. 29 gives place and date of the original composition: Vale ex wyena 5to nonas iulij anno domini 1444.
Ms. may be a copy from an unidentified printed edition; pagination and number of lines correspond to one listed by Hain (Repertorium, 1826-1838, no. *219).
Script
German cursive script
Language
Latin
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