Cornell University, Archives 4600 Bd. Ms. 38

Metadata

DS ID:

DS12135

Shelfmark:

Archives 4600 Bd. Ms. 38

Title:

Dialogi / Gregory the Great

Author:

Gregory I, Pope, approximately 540-604

Gregory I WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy (Padua?)

Italy TGN

Date:

between ca. 1450 and ca. 1500

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Text in Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 207 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 155 x 115 (105 x 68) mm. bound to 168 x 123 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Layout: Written in 22-25 long lines, above top line; frame-ruled.
Script: Humanistic round.
Decoration: Historiated initial containing miniature of Gregory the Great (f. 1r), 5 smaller illuminated initials (ff. 4r, 41v, 54v, 86r, 146r).
Binding: Modern, white calf.
Origin: Written in Italy, second half of the 15th century.
Provenance: MS No. 95 in the monastery of Sta. Maria de Pratalea (probably Praglia, diocese of Padua) (ca. 1500). Obtained from Lucien Gougy, Paris (Sales Catalogue 164, Item No. 453) in 1903 for the White Library.
Former shelfmark: MSS Bd. Rare BX G82 D5
Related shelfmark: MS B.1 (De Ricci)

Keyword:

Biographies

illuminations (paintings)

Early works

humanistic scripts

parchment (animal material)

Saints

Miracles

Immortality

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.library.cornell.edu/catalog/3978532

Holding Institution:

Cornell University