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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1468

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 255

Title:

Italian religious miscellany

Religious texts

Place:

Italy

TGN

Date:

1464- ca. 1473

fifteenth century (dates CE) Linked Data indicator

AAT

Language:

Italian

WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper

AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 94 leaves : paper ; 283 x 201 (207 x 150) mm bound to 292 x 202 mm

Former Owner(s):

Monastero di Santo Spirito (Verona, Italy)

Monastero di Santo Spirito in Verona Linked Data indicator

WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
Foliation: Paper, 94; [1-94]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Traces of a near-contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto, mostly trimmed away.
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 34 lines; ruled in lead and ink.
Script: Written in a formal book script (f. 1r-1v) by one hand that breaks off abruptly, with the text beginning again in a later semi-cursive humanistic script by a second hand. Works 2-6 begin with a few words in a larger, Gothic script. The sixth work has many corrections in another hand.
Decoration: 5-line red initial with blue penwork ornamentation (f. 2r, 65r), 2-line blue initial with red penwork ornamentation (f. 84), rubrics in red, with alternating red and blue initials, and capitals and Gothic incipits touched with yellow; manicule (f. 63r).
Binding: Contemporary blind-stamped brown calf over wooden boards; five brass bosses on each cover (one missing, upper cover, lower left corner); two clasps and catches, engraved and stamped IHS. Spine splitting. A few wormholes. Various stains and smudges.
Origin: Written in northern Italy, based on orthography and early provenance in Verona (f. 94v), in 1464 (f.1r) and mostly in 1473 or later (f. 2r).
Formerly owned by the Monastero di Santo Spirito of Verona (inscription, f. 94v).
Appears in Maggs Bros. catalog 542 (1930), no. 180a, and catalog 687 (March 1940), no. 239.
Sold by Laurence Witten, 1955.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Renaissance

hagiographies (literary genre)

poems

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Italian

Legends

Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint

Christian saints in literature

Italian literature

Fifteenth century

Italian poetry