Rochester Institute of Technology, 108299
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS16504
- Shelfmark:
- 108299
- Title:
- Choir book
- Place:
- Genoa, Italy
- Date:
- 1509.
- Language:
- lat
- Material:
- vellum, illustrated, colour
- Physical Description:
- Extent: ii, 104, i leaves : vellum, illustrated, colour ; 524 x 345 mm.
- Former Owner(s):
- Odorno, Mary
- Note:
- Title devised by cataloger.
Inscription on front flyleaf reads, "San Leonardo," in a seventeenth-century hand.-- Vendor description;
Written in 1509 by Paul Lambert for the Abbess Sister Dorothy Adorno at the Abbey of St. Leonard in Genoa, front flyleaf, "Anno Millesimo quingentesimo Nonagesimo Tempore R[everendissime] D[ominae] Abbatiss Sororis Dorothe Adurn Monastery Sancti Leonardi Genu P. Paulus Lambertus scribebat." -- Vendor description;
Although we have found no other records of this abbess, Dorothy Adorno, her family was one of the most prominent in Genoa. Eight members of the Adorno family served as doge in the period from 1363-1527. Dorothy was also a relative by marriage of St. Catherine of Genoa (1463-1510, Catarina Flisca Adurna, in Latin). -- Vendor description.
Given the prominence of Dorothy's family, it is likely that her convent was a wealthy one for well-born women, but we have not identified this foundation, and further research is called for (Debby, 2012, p.655, mentions a painting by Domenico Fiasella (1589-1669), active mainly in Genoa, illustrating St. Clare expelling the Saracens from Assisi (1667), now in the Chiesa di San Giovanni... - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://digitalcollections.rit.edu/luna/servlet/s/i1994m
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.rit.edu/luna/servlet/iiif/m/RIT~1~1~638~4911/manifest
- Holding Institution:
