University of Chicago, Codex Ms. 63

Metadata

DS ID:

DS16685

Shelfmark:

Codex Ms. 63

Title:

Breviario de amor

Breviari d'Amor

Author:

Ermengaud, Matfre, active 1288-1322

Matfre Ermengaud WIKIDATA

Place:

Spain

Spain TGN

Date:

ca. 1400

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

In Spanish

Spanish WIKIDATA

Material:

illustrations

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 volume (233 leaves) : illustrations ; 33 x 24 cm

Former Owner(s):

Taccone, Francesco, marchese, 1763-1818

Francesco Taccone WIKIDATA

Note:

227 numbered leaves, 233 leaves in all.
Layout: Written in double columns, rubricated, in one hand.
Decoration: Fol. 1 contains a pen-and-ink drawing of the author requesting Divine guidance.
Binding: 20th-century brown linen cloth over boards; binder's ticket: Sky Meadow Bindery, Inc., May 1992. Earlier binding: contemporary limp vellum, damaged by insects. This manuscript has been rebound and binding fragments retained. See Special Collections circulation desk for additional information.
Former shelfmark: Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Library, BX890.B84.
From the library of the Marquis of Taccone, treasurer to the king of Naples late in the 18th century. Purchased by the University of Chicago from S. Calvary & Co. of Berlin in 1891.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Spanish

Illinois--Chicago

Institutional Record:

http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2668524

Holding Institution:

University of Chicago