University of Kansas, MS C247

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1215

Shelfmark:

MS C247

Title:

Dominici Capranici Card. Vita ad Card. Papien /

Author:

Bracciolini, Giovan Battista,‏ ‎ 1440-1470

Giovan Battista Bracciolini WIKIDATA

Place:

Rome, Italy

Rome TGN

Date:

[between 1541 and 1560]

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 38 leaves : parchment, illuminations, frontispiece, coat of arms ; 228 x 156 (170 x 105) mm bound to 236 x 164 mm

Former Owner(s):

Ridolfini, Rinaldo

Rinaldo Ridolfini WIKIDATA

North, Frederick, Earl of Guilford, 1766-1827

Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford WIKIDATA

Heber, Richard, 1773-1833

Richard Heber WIKIDATA

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Fenwick, Katherine Somerset Wyttenbach, 1823-1913

Katherine Somerset Wyttenbach Fenwick WIKIDATA

Fenwick, Thomas FitzRoy Phillipps, 1856-1938

Thomas FitzRoy Phillipps Fenwick WIKIDATA

Note:

Title from opening rubric on folio 5r.
Manuscript codex
Collation: 38 (parchment, 1 and 38 are pastedowns): 1⁴ (1 is pastedown) + 2-4⁸ + 5⁸ (wants 8, possibly blank) + 6⁴ (wants 3, possibly blank; 4 is pastedown).
Foliation: Original (?) pagination (1-62), beginning with quire 2, on folio 5r. Foliation supplied by cataloger.
Catchwords: Horizontal catchwords in lower right corner of the text frame on folios 6v, 7v, 8v, 10v, 12v, 14v, 20v, 28v.
Layout: Written in 21 long lines, above top line. Ruled in lead; written area also marked with a full frame in red.
Script: Written by a single hand in Humanistic cursive.
Decoration: A decorated frontispiece on folio 4v with the coat of arms of Dominicus Capranica, which later became the coat of arms of the Almo Collegio Capranica that was founded in 1457 in Rome, Italy (charged with an anchor tied to a hawser intertwined around three uprooted Cypress trees on a golden field and adorned with a cross bottony and a red galero with six tassels in three rows on...
Binding: Early modern. Contemporary to the manuscript, possibly original, probably made in the mid-sixteenth century in a workshop in Rome, Italy. Bound in full leather dyed dark red, gold-tooled with wide floral frames made by a panel stamp and featuring painted shield of Dominicus Capranica at the center of both covers. Five raised bands. Gold-tooling on spine, with title area dyed light...
Origin: Probably written in Rome, Italy in mid-sixteenth century.
Former shelfmark: Phillipps MS 8274
Shelfmark: Lawrence, University of Kansas, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, MS C247
In relatively good condition despite water damage and staining on the first few leaves and ink smears on a few leaves. Staining on pastedowns from turn-ins. Frontispiece exhibits extensive abrasion and some pigment loss. Very few corrections. Doodle of a man with a sword on the lower half of folio 36r.
The manuscript perhaps originally was commissioned by a member of the Capranica family or by the library of the Almo Collegio Capranica in Rome, based on the frontispiece with the coat of arms of Dominicus Capranica and the binding featuring his shield. Soon after, in the second half of the sixteenth century, the manuscript was probably in the possession of Rinaldo Ridolfini, a lawyer in...

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Devices (Provenance)

Gold tooled bindings

Provenance labels

Contemporary bindings

Leather bindings

Bookplates

Booksellers' labels

Cardinals--Biography

Manuscripts, Latin

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, Medieval

Institutional Record:

https://kuprimo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/1n9tuvc/KU_VOYAGER2963902

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archivelab.org/iiif/images_MSC247_30/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

University of Kansas