Wellesley College, P1030
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS16437
- Shelfmark:
- P1030
- Title:
- Thesaurus pontificum sive sacerdotum
- Bruno Iohannis, de Davantria, active 1446-1454
- Place:
- Italy
- Date:
- between 1450 and 1499
- Language:
- lat
- Physical Description:
- Extent: i, 110, i leaves ; 205 x 147 (122 x 82) mm
- Note:
- Collation: Octavo paper, with watermarks: a flower similar to Piccard XII.1483 (Como, 1456), a circle, a cross, and an arrow. A-E12, F-K10. First half of quires A-H signed A1-A6 ... H1-H5. Decorative catchwords. Fifteenth-century foliation.
Layout: 1 column, 30 lines. Vertical bounding lines only, full-length, writing and bounding lines in plummet.
Script: Written in a Gothic rotunda in brown ink. Red rubrics.
Decoration: Fol. 1: 6-line initial in ochre with white-vine, filled in red and blue on a blue background, historiated with a putti waving a banner, in the lower margin the arms of Cardinal Pietro of Sondrio held by angels; 3-line initials throughout the text alternating red or blue.
Origin: Written in Italy in the second half of the fifteenth century for Cardinal Pietro Ferrici, of Sondrio (his arms on fol. 1; another manuscript from his library was offered by De Marinis, 17 June 1926, n. 43). The date 1450 is mentioned on fol. 87, where the author records that he was present at the canonization of San Bernadino of Siena by Pope Nicholas V on 24 May 1450. Slightly later...
In the seventeenth-century, owned by the Cathedral at Fossombrone, near Urbino (inscription on front flyleaf "Cathedralis ecclesiae Forosemproniensis"), where the manuscript apparently had the shelf number "n. 6." - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://libcat.wellesley.edu/Record/in00000626069
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://repository.wellesley.edu/node/36231/manifest
- Holding Institution:
