Ad Nicolaum Lipomanum patricium Venetum Iacobi Tirobusci Lipomane libell[us] foeliciter incipit ..., Padua, circa 1480 : manuscript.

Accession number:

PML 199044

Author:

Tiraboschi, Jacopo, author.

Published:

Padua, Italy, circa 1480

Credit:

Purchased on the T. Kimball Brooker Foundation Book Purchase Fund in honor of the Morgan's Centennial.

Description:

50 leaves (1 column, 21 lines), bound : vellum, illustrations ; 165 x 114 mm; binding: 172 x 119 mm

Notes:

Explicit, folio 50: Ad Nicolaum Lipomanum Patricium Venetum Iacobi Tirobusci Bergo[mensis] Lipomanae liber Feliciter explicit.
Originally presented by Jacopo Tiraboschi to his classmate Niccolò Lippomano, the Codex Lippomano is a collection of about one hundred Latin epigrams and other verses composed by Tiraboschi, in which the first and last poems are addressed to Lippomano, three others to Niccolò's brothers Girolamo and Vettore, one to his paternal grandmother (Chiara Tron), and one to a more distant ancestor, the humanist Marco Lippomano (d. 1447).
Decoration: Illumination on f. 1: an architectural plinth, with medallion head of a man facing left in center; two putti on the plinth, and two coats of arms (left: Lippomano; right: illegible). (First leaf dampstained affecting and obscuring the illumination, trifling soiling).

Binding:

Early plaquette binding of Paduan light reddish-brown goatskin over wooden boards (172 x 119 mm), ca. 1479-1481, possibly by Felice Feliciano (1433-1479; cf. Hobson), with filigree borders, corners and centerpiece, the ground of the center and borders are painted blue, but the corners are laid down on a green silk ground, a central profile portrait of Antinous (?) with long flowing hair, taken from a plaquette, spine with 3 full bands, vellum endleaves, plain edges, with title lettered on bottom edge. Heavily damaged, including loss of spine covering, signficant losses to pierced leather layer, and wormholes to wooden boards.

Variant Title:

Known as: Codex Lippomano

Provenance:

Niccolò Lippomano (died 1517; inscription in red ink "Nicolai Lipomani et amicorum" on verso of first endleaf); Biblioteca Marchesi Capilupi, Villa di Suzzara (Mantua); Libreria antiquaria T. De Marinis & C., Florence (Catalogue 7: Manuscrits et livres rares [1907], item 25 & Pl. IIIb); Eugénie ("Jenny") Finaly (née Ellenberger) (1850-1938); inserted exlibris of her uncle, Baron Horace de Landau (1824-1903), his exlibris no. 59290; by descent to her daughter, Julie Florence de Cossette (née Finaly) (1877-1968), m. 1903 Henri Raoul Jean Eugène Vicomte de Cossette, (1876-1933); by descent to their son, Pierre Raoul Ghislain Horace, Vicomte de Cossette (1914-1980); Christian Galantaris, Paris; Bernard Malle (1929-2008), penciled initials "B M" in circle on lower pastedown; T. Kimball Brooker (b. 1939), his sale: Bibliotheca Brookeriana, Sotheby's, New York, 11 October 2023, lot 85.

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Classification:

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Department:

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