Harvard University, MS Typ 213

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DS ID:

DS10601

Shelfmark:

MS Typ 213

Title:

Officium Beate Marie Virginis secundum consuetudinem Romane ecclesie

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Scribe:

Sanvito, Bartolomeo

Bartolomeo Sanvito WIKIDATA

Date:

ca. 1485-ca. 1494

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 184 leaves, bound : vellum ; 18 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Isabella d'Este, consort of Francesco II Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua, 1474-1539

Isabella d'Este WIKIDATA

Beatty, A. Chester Sir, 1875-1968

Alfred Chester Beatty WIKIDATA

Note:

Title from explicit, f. 68v.
Written by Bartolomeo Sanvito of Padua in an upright humanistic hand in light brown ink in one column,with initial letters and rubrics in gold, blue and red.
Probably written for Isabella d'Este Gonzaga, Marchioness of Mantua. See de la Mare.
There are 7 large historiated initials.
21 leaves are missing, 15 of which contained full-page miniatures. Two of these are in the Musée Condé in Chantilly, France.
Bound in 18th-century Italian red morocco, tooled in gilt.
In a 19th-century red morocco tray case, 20 cm.
A. Chester Beatty (label on spine "W.MS. III 120"; sale, Sotheby's, 9 May 1933, lot 64).
Gift of Philip Hofer, 1967.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Medieval

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990096041060203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:3710794

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/ids:53794269

Holding Institution:

Harvard University