Comoediae
Accession number:
MS G.41
Title:
Comoediae
Created:
Lombardy, Italy, ca. 1480.
Binding:
Original blind-stamped calf over boards, rebacked, with brass studs and bronze clasps, remains of punch dotting.
Credit:
Gift of the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection, 1984.
Description:
108 leaves (1 column, 30 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 261 x 180 mm
Provenance:
Purchased in Nov. 1956 from Arthur Rau, Paris, for William S. Glazier (1907-1962), New York; deposited in the Pierpont Morgan Library by the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection in 1963.
Notes:
Ms. written and illuminated in Lombardy, Italy, ca. 1480.
Each of the comedies has an argument and prologue.
Decoration: 6 large illuminated white-vine initials, 1 armorial roundel, numerous smaller illuminated initials.
Script:
humanistica rotunda.
Language:
Latin
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