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Expositio hymnorum qui cantatur per annum secundum morem sanctae Romanae ecclesiae.

Accession number
MS M.382
Object title
Expositio hymnorum qui cantatur per annum secundum morem sanctae Romanae ecclesiae.
Display Date
1593.
Created
Foligno, Italy, 1593.
Binding
Italian 16th-century red morocco, gold-tooled with flowers, foliage, and arabesques; interlacing ribbon painted black; Italian imitation of French fanfare designs; the Aldobrandini arms in central oval plaques on each cover.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1907.
Description
145 leaves (1 column, 29-31 lines), bound : paper, ill. ; 150 x 110 mm
Provenance
Written and illuminated in 1593 at Foligno as a gift for Pietro Aldobrandino (1571-1621; created cardinal 1593); his ex libris inside front cover; Gruel and Engelmann collection; D. Morgand (inv. no. 28326); Edouard Rahir sale (London, Sotheby's, June 20, 1902, no. 107) to Falby; Edouard Rahir (Reliures historiques, 1907, no. 30); purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Rahir on May 15, 1907; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. hymnal with critical commentary; written and illuminated in Foligno, Italy, in 1593.
Compiled by Gabriele Barnabò of Foligno of the Order of St. Augustine.
On fol. 144-145: De laude, virtute et efficacia Psalmorum.
Scribe: Marco Treggi; signed on fol. 131: scriptum per D(omi)num Martium Treggiam Fulginatem. MDLxxxxiij.
Decoration: 2 armorial headpieces with arms of Pietro Aldobrandini (azure, a bend embattled counterembattled between six estoiles or); illuminated initials throughout, some with arms.
Script
cursive
Language
Latin
Classification