Bryn Mawr College, MS 41
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS16541
- Shelfmark:
- MS 41
- Title:
- Orationes ad nicolaum V, etc.
- Manetti, Giannozzo, 1396-1459
Bracciolini, Poggio, 1380-1459
Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444
- Place:
- Italy
- Date:
- 1450-1460
- Language:
- Latin
- Material:
- Parchment
- Physical Description:
- Extent: i+31+i; 215 x 140 mm bound to 225 x 150 mm; parchment
- Former Owner(s):
- Gordon, Phyllis Walter Goodhart
Gordan, John Dozier Jr.
Goodhart, Howard Lehman, 1884?-1951
Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872
- Note:
- Binding: Modern calf, vertical gold stamp on spine: ORATIO FLORENTINORUM AD NICOLAUM V.; restored by J. McDonald Co. East Norwalk, Conn.
Layout: Single column written in twenty-one lines, ruled with single vertical bounding lines in ink; written area: 140 x 85 mm
Script: Humanistic
Decoration: Fol. 1r includes a four-line gold initial on a blue ground entwined with white-vine stems on a pink, green, and dark blue ground with vine work; in the lower margin a border in the same style surrounds a shield, argent, with a unicorn rampant gules; this coat of arms appears to be a later addition; similarly styled four-line initials may be found on fols. 11r and 28r; three-line...
Provenance: Written in Italy around 1450-60; the arms on fol. 1r suggest that the first owner was probably a member of the Picenardi family of Cremona; bought by Sir Thomas Phillipps from Payne; Phillipps number 4209 written on front pastedown in lead on fol. 1r in right lower margin in ink, on a printed label in the inner margin, and in the upper margin in lead; also on fol. 1r, in gutter, in... - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0003/html/BMC_MS41.html
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/3/BMC_MS41/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
