Accession number
PML 22222.5
Creator
Sánchez de Arévalo, Rodrigo, 1404-1470
Object title
Epistola de expugnatione Nigropontis
Published
Cologne/Lower Rhine , after approximately 1471.
Description
[10] leaves ; 29 cm
Notes
Ms. executed ca. 1471 in Cologne/Lower Rhine region.
Collation: [1¹²], 12 leaves, leaves 11-12 blank.
Chancery folio (27.8 x 19.7 cm). Paper with P watermark dated to 1471, Strassburg/Speyer/Freiburg i.B. (Piccard, Wasserzeichen, IV: IX, 1585-86).
Light ink ruling in 1 column (19.8 x 13.5 cm) of 38 lines.
Author also known as Rodericus Zamorensis, Bishop of Zamora, Spain.
Likely copied from Cologne edition of Ulrich Zel, about 1470-71 (ISTC ir00213000) based on colophon.
Execution attributed to Lower Rhine region on basis of binding.
Collation: [1¹²], 12 leaves, leaves 11-12 blank.
Chancery folio (27.8 x 19.7 cm). Paper with P watermark dated to 1471, Strassburg/Speyer/Freiburg i.B. (Piccard, Wasserzeichen, IV: IX, 1585-86).
Light ink ruling in 1 column (19.8 x 13.5 cm) of 38 lines.
Author also known as Rodericus Zamorensis, Bishop of Zamora, Spain.
Likely copied from Cologne edition of Ulrich Zel, about 1470-71 (ISTC ir00213000) based on colophon.
Execution attributed to Lower Rhine region on basis of binding.
Inscriptions/Markings
Decoration: Rubricated, red lombards, paragraph marks, and capital strokes (same as in PML 22222.1-2).
Provenance
Early provenance inscription, abraded (leaf [1]/2r of Defensorium fidei); Pierpont Morgan Library, booklabel (front pastedown), purchased from Wilfred Voynich in January 1924.
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