Accession number
MS M.938
Object title
Commentary and prose paraphrase on the Metamorphoses of Ovid.
Display Date
1446.
Created
Italy, probably Milan, 1446.
Binding
Formerly in 15th-century brown calf, much patched and preserved separately; rebound in full stained calf by Deborah Evetts in 1989.
Credit line
Purchase; Karl und Faber, on the Belle da Costa Greene Fund; 1968.
Description
182 leaves (1 column, 30-39 lines), bound : paper, ill. ; 288 x 204 mm
Provenance
Made for Melchioris de Arluno (on flyleaf II, verso: Commentarii in Methamorphoses Ouidii manuscripta ad usum Melchioris de Arluno anno 1446 scriptus); inside front cover: iste liber est spectabilis et generosi uiri domini Melchioris de Arluno potestatis Tredone de anno 1454; owned by the Helzcollegium S. Michaelis, Vienna (inscription on flyleaf II verso: Helzollegium S. Michaelis, Vienae; Karl und Faber, Kunst und Lieratur Antiquariat, Munich (catalogue Aktion 114, 5-6 November, 1968 pp. 14-16, lot 12, plates p. 15 and 16); purchased in this sale on the Belle da Costa Greene Fund, 1968.
Notes
Ms. literary commentary; written and illuminated in Italy, probably Milan, in 1446 (dated in inscription on flyleaf II verso).
Watermark: almost identical with Briquet 6596, noted in Bergamo and Milan in the second quarter of the 15th century.
Decoration: 1 illuminated title page with gilt initial, vinescroll borders, and arms (arms of Arluni of Milan: Shield: Argent a label (?) sable and gules, a chief or charged with eagle sable. Crest: torso and arms of man with gilt crown 5 fleurons on shoulders, above ostrich head facing right with nail in mouth, two ranks of gilt and colored feathers to left; flanked by the letters I (left) and P (right) above which, respectively, are the heads of a woman and man.), 5 border miniatures, 1 border monogram.
Watermark: almost identical with Briquet 6596, noted in Bergamo and Milan in the second quarter of the 15th century.
Decoration: 1 illuminated title page with gilt initial, vinescroll borders, and arms (arms of Arluni of Milan: Shield: Argent a label (?) sable and gules, a chief or charged with eagle sable. Crest: torso and arms of man with gilt crown 5 fleurons on shoulders, above ostrich head facing right with nail in mouth, two ranks of gilt and colored feathers to left; flanked by the letters I (left) and P (right) above which, respectively, are the heads of a woman and man.), 5 border miniatures, 1 border monogram.
Script
cursive
Language
Latin
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