Harvard University, MS Richardson 46

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS10746

Shelfmark:

MS Richardson 46

Title:

Triumpho delle virtu

Author:

Foresi, Bastiano

Bastiano Foresi WIKIDATA

Date:

ca. 1475

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ita

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 48 leaves, bound : vellum, ill. ; 21 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Squirhill, Francesco Curadossi

Francesco Curadossi Squirhill WIKIDATA

Note:

Written in a humanistic cursive script in an unidentified hand in 1 column of 27 lines; 4 decorated initials with foliate borders; illuminated coat of arms of Lorenzo de' Medici (f. 1r); colored initials in blue and headings in pale red.
Attributed to the scribe of the former Yates Thompson Petrarch (now Lisbon, Gulbenkian 129).
Title from explicit.
The text includes a letter by Marsilio Ficino (not autograph), recommending the poems and the author to Lorenzo (f. 47v).
Bound in late 15th-cent. blind-tooled brown goat.
In a tray case, 23 cm.
Bequest of William K. Richardson, 1951.
Made for Lorenzo de' Medici; F. Curadossi Squirhill (see Kristeller); Quaritch; bought by Richardson in Jan. 1940.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Medieval

poems

Manuscripts, Renaissance

coats of arms

Virtue

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990098901960203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/ids:49675771

Holding Institution:

Harvard University