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Ovidio epistole volgarizzate (MS B.6).

Accession number
MS B.6
Object title
Ovidio epistole volgarizzate (MS B.6).
Display Date
between 1425 and 1450.
Created
Milan, Italy, between 1425 and 1450.
Binding
Sheepskin.
Credit line
Bequest of Curt F. Bühler; 1985.
Description
30 leaves (1 column, 32 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 270 x 192 mm
Provenance
Purchased Oct. 1933 by Curt F. Bühler from Libreria Antiquaria Umberto Saba, Trieste.
Notes
Ms. written and illuminated in Milan, Italy, second quarter of the 15th-century.
Translated into ottava rima by Domenico da Montecchiello.
Decoration: 4 illuminated initials with marginal extenders, 3 filigree initials.
Script
humanistica rotunda
Language
Italian
Century
Classification