Wellesley College, P898

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS16418

Shelfmark:

P898

Title:

Quattro reami

Author:

Frezzi, Federico, approximately 1346-1416

Federico Frezzi WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

between 1450 and 1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ita

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: i, 141, i leaves ; 317 x 218 (205 x 81) mm

Note:

Collation: Folio paper (with fol. 1 and 10--the outer bifolia of the first quire--of parchment), with crowned-column watermark similar to Piccard III.i.245 (Venice, 1471) and Briquet 4412 (Sienna and Venice, 1461-1471). 1-810, 912, 108, 1112, 128, 1312, 148+1 (final folio tipped in). Early twentieth-century foliation on versoes skips fol. 71, so reaches 140 instead of 141.
Layout: 1 column, 45 lines. Vertical bounding lines full-length, in blind or plummet, Prickings extant at top of vertical bounding lines.
Script: Written in a cancellaresca script in brown ink. Rubrics written in red humanistic cursive.
Decoration: Fol. 1r: full-page border with anthropomorphic depictions of the "four realms," in the lower border two women holding a wreath with space for armorial, left empty; each book begins with a 10-line white-vine initial with background in colors, those on fol. 35v, 70v, and 100v are unfinished; 3-line blue initials begin each chapter; 2-line brown capitals begin each tercet.
Origin: Written in Italy in the second half of the fifteenth century.

Keyword:

Manuscripts

Italian poetry

Early works

Wellesley College Library

Manuscripts, Italian

Massachusetts--Wellesley

Institutional Record:

https://libcat.wellesley.edu/Record/in00000626087

IIIF Manifest:

https://repository.wellesley.edu/node/31530/manifest

Holding Institution:

Wellesley College