Newberry Library, VAULT Case MS 75.1
Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS17897
- Shelfmark:
- VAULT Case MS 75.1
- Title:
- Laudi and sonetti] /
- Author:
- Belcari, Feo, 1410-1484
- Place:
- Florence?, Italy
- Date:
- between 1450 and 1484?
- Language:
- In Italian
- Material:
- parchment
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 44 leaves : parchment ; 218 x 148 (138 x 70) mm
- Note:
- Manuscript codex.
Title from printed catalog.
Collation: Parchment, fol. 44 (an undetermined number of folios missing at the beginning, after fol. 3, and probably at the end; severe water damage at the end, considerable portions of text illegible, even under ultraviolet light) ; 16 (central portion of quire missing) 210 310 (-9 with loss of text) 410 56 64 (-4) ; catchwords present.
Layout: Written in 20-25 long lines beginning on the first ruled line; ruled in hard point for 25 lines; spaces between words omitted frequently.
Script: Written in humanistic textura; headings in script of text in brown ink which was probably violet when written.
Origin: Written in Italy, probably Florence, during the lifetime of Belcari (died 1484).
Occasional marginal annotations in two different hands: a second hand transcribes "ave maria" on fol. 25r; a third hand later transcribes a number of notes throughout the manuscript, probably referring to page numbers in a different edition. On the right margin of fol. 37r, a partially legible text is transcribed by the first main, hand ("Cantasi come...").
Former owner's inscription front pastedown: pencil note by an American of English hand "Raffaello Uccelli, Firenze giugno 1925 costa L. 200.00. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_NBY/i5mcb2/alma992974798805867
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://collections.newberry.org/IIIF3/Presentation/Manifest/2KXJ8ZPQ730B
- Holding Institution:
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