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Opera varia (MS M.404).

Accession number
MS M.404
Object title
Opera varia (MS M.404).
Display Date
12th century
Created
Italy, 12th century
Binding
Half-tan morocco and modern boards by Marguerite Duprez Lahey.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1910.
Description
110 leaves (1 column, 38 lines), bound : vellum ; 220 x 140 mm
Provenance
Owned by Petrarch in the fourteenth century, who added marginalia (fol. 16r); purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Alexandre Imbert in 1910; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. written in Italy in the 12th and 13th centuries; 14th century marginalia.
Scribe: written in the 12th and 13th centuries; the last scribe, Uliverius, has signed his name; colophon reads: Finito libro feramus gratia(s) Cristo. Vivat in celis Uliverius nomine felix.
Fol. 1-72v are 1 column, 38 lines; fol. 79-110 are 1 column, 31-32 lines.
Script
minuscule
Language
Latin
Century
Classification