Lectura super codicem

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Accession number:

MS M.441-442

Title:

Lectura super codicem

Created:

Naples, Italy, 1438.

Binding:

20th-century limp vellum.

Credit:

Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), 1910.

Description:

2 v. (171, 305 leaves) (2 columns, 50 lines), bound : paper, ill. ; 410 x 290 mm.

Provenance:

Made in 1438 for Jacopo de Fucio, a Neapolitan jurist; Marchese Taccone of Naples; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Alexandre Imbert in July 1910; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).

Notes:

Ms. written and illuminated in Naples, Italy, in 1438.
The text of M.441-442 is unfinished.
Pierpont Morgan Library MS M.441 is written in notarial semi-cursive script only; Pierpont Morgan Library MS M.442 uses notarial, semi-cursive, textura, and cursive scripts.
The scribe of Pierpont Morgan Library MS M.441 is Berteramus de Forciato de Castellucio; colophon on fol. 169v: Quam scripsit Ego Berteramus de Forciato de Castellucio ad mandatum domini mei Domini Jacobi de Fucio de Neapoli in legali scientia professoris...et eam ad finem produxi currente anno navitatis domini nostri Ihesu Christi M.CCCC.XXXVIII secunde indictionis die XXI mensis Januarii...Rege Alfonso Regnante; the scribes of Pierpont Morgan Library MS M.442 are Berteramus de Forciato de Castellucio (fol. 1-152) and Petrus Pictzenini (fol. 154-240).
Decoration: illuminated title page on fol. 1r of Pierpont Morgan Library MS M.441 (headpiece, decorated initials, and vine-scroll border).
Artist: perhaps Petrus Pictzenini.

Script:

notarial, semi-cursive, textura, and cursive scripts

Language:

Latin

Resources:

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Century:

15th century

Genres:

Dated manuscripts

Illuminated manuscripts

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