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Canzionere

Accession number: 
MS M.474
Title: 
Canzionere
Created: 
Italy, probably Rome, ca. 1520.
Binding: 
Ca. 1520 Italian black morocco over beveled wooden boards, tooled in gold, originally with four leather clasps, one remaining.
Credit: 
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1911.
Description: 
139 leaves (1 column, 29-30 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 286 x 170 mm
Provenance: 
Owned by Marco Antonio Altieri (1450-1532) (inscription ...lteriorum delitiis M. Antonius Alterius D.D. in architectural frame on vellum leaf opposite first page of text), library no.: III.b.4 appears on fol. 139v and on back pastedown written in a 16th-century hand; Eugène Piot; his sale (Paris, June 1, 1891, I, no. 511) to Baron Roger Portalis (1841-1912); Rudolphe Kann (Catalogue I, 1907, no. 71); Harvey Frost (Quaritch); Tammaro De Marinis; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Alexandre Imbert in 1911; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes: 

Ms. written and illuminated in Italy, probably in Rome, ca. 1520.
Decoration: illuminated frontispiece, which was commissioned by Marco Antonio Altieri (1450-1532) to replace the original fol. 1, which is now in the Biblioteca civica di Trieste.

Script: 
Italic chancery script
Language: 
Italian
Resources: 
Description/Bibliography
Century: 
16th century
Genres: 
Illuminated manuscripts
Headpieces (ornament areas)
Vellum (parchment)
Morocco bindings (Binding)
Gold tooled bindings (Binding)
Catalog Link: 
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Classification: 
Manuscript
Department: 
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts