Accession number:
MS M.550
Title:
Diploma, University of Padua
Created:
Padua, Italy, February 8, 1597.
Binding:
Original red morocco gilt.
Credit:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1912.
Description:
6 leaves (1 column, 20 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 230 x 160 mm
Provenance:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Ferdinando Ongania, Venice, in 1912; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes:
Ms. written and illuminated in Padua, Italy, and dated February 8, 1597 on fol. 6.
Scribe: Jacobus Malclavellus.
Also signed by Alexander Terentius (Vicarius generalis) and Antonius Crescentinus (Cancellarius).
Decoration: one full-page frontispiece with historiated border
Script:
Roman letters
Language:
Latin
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