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Il filostrato.

Accession number
MS M.371
Object title
Il filostrato.
Created
Naples, Italy, 1414.
Binding
Formerly in stamped brown calf over boards, a large six-pointed star in central panel, a band of simulated Arabic letters forming the outside border; clasp hinges with agnus dei stamp; rebound in the 20th century in brown morocco.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Description
57 leaves (2 columns, 32 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 310 x 220 mm
Provenance
Executed for a noble Grigniano; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Olschki in 1909; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. written and illustrated in Naples, Italy, in Oct. 1414.
Scribe: Pax Juliani de Olibano; colophon on fol. 2v: Hic liber est magnifici viri de Grigniano / scriptus fuit per me pacem juliani de Olibano / in anno domini millesimo cccc xiiij. viii. in dictione de mense octobus.
Decoration: 59 pen drawings colored with wash.
Script
textura
Language
Italian
Century
Classification