Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Vitae patrum (MS M.626).

Accession number
MS M.626
Object title
Vitae patrum (MS M.626).
Created
Naples, Italy, between 1350 and 1375.
Binding
Three-quarter maroon morocco by Marguerite Duprez Lahey.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan (1867-1943) in 1916.
Description
138 leaves (2 columns, 46 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 356 x 252 mm
Provenance
Offered to J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) by Léon Gruel in late 1912; purchased by J.P. Morgan (1867-1943) from Voynich in 1916.
Notes
Ms. lives of 72 Fathers of the Church and anchorites; written and decorated in Naples, Italy, in the third quarter of the 14th century.
Compiled from various sources to include Jerome, Athanasius of Alexandria, and Rufinus Tyrannius--Cf. PML files.
Decoration: 273 ink and colored wash drawings.
Artist: related to the work of Roberto d'Oderisio, to whom it has been attributed.
Script
Italian textura (littera bononiensis)
Language
Latin
Classification