Newberry Library, VAULT folio Case MS 214

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS18098

Shelfmark:

VAULT folio Case MS 214

Title:

Miscellany

Miscellany

Place:

Florence or Venice, Italy?

Florence TGN

Venice TGN

Italy TGN

Date:

between 1465 and 1475

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

In Italian

Italian WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 130 leaves : paper ; 294 x 215 (219 x 150-170) mm bound to 303 x 230 mm

Note:

Manscript codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Paper (cf. Briquet no. 3370 "chapeau de cardinal", Florence ca. 1465-1467 or Venice, 1469), 140 leaves (last leaf and bottom flyleaf defective), lacking leaves 23, 38, 42, 80, 82, 88, 90, 107, 119, 127 and apparently single leaves after leaves 6 and 35. Some horizontal catchwords and some leaf signatures, old foliation (16th century?)
Layout: Written in about 32-35 lines.
Script: Written in a variety of semi-cursive gothic bookhands in dark brown ink.
Decoration: Headings in red, capitals touched in yellow, some painted initials in red or blue or in pale red infilled with yellow, two pages with large initials and two-sided decorative borders formed of scrolling leaves in penwork infilled with wash in yellow and pink.
Origin: Possibly written in Florence or Venice, Italy between 1465 and 1475.
Provenance: part of a name on the last leaf, "... farsettaio, scritto di sua mano", Giovanni da Magronami di Lucca (merchant in Constantinople), Lucha di Masino Dalpozzo and Francesco di Salvestro (fol.48r), Juliano di Domenicho dalla Chavallina and Francesco di Salvestro di Rinaldo da Sangiovanni (fol.48v), and others. Folio 1 is inscribed in a sixteenth-century hand, "Ill[ustrissim]o et...
Provenance: From the Roberto Polo collection (bought from Renzo Rizzi, Milan); their sale, Venice, Semenzato, 5 May 2003, lot 47.
Owned jointly by the Newberry Library and the University of Minnesota (Newberry Library/University of Minnesota MS 2).

Keyword:

Contemplation

Early works

Prayer--Catholic Church

Patience

Hermits

Theology, Doctrinal

History

500-1500

Theology, Doctrinal--Middle Ages

Spiritual life--Catholic Church

Saints

Manuscripts, Italian

Institutional Record:

https://i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_NBY/i5mcb2/alma998129658805867

IIIF Manifest:

https://collections.newberry.org/IIIF3/Presentation/Manifest/2KXJ8Z9UG9L7

Holding Institution:

Newberry Library