Newberry Library, VAULT Case MS 133

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS18180

Shelfmark:

VAULT Case MS 133

Title:

Pius episcopus seruus seruorum dei illustri mahumeti principi turchorum timorem diuini nominis et amorem

Epistola ad Mahumetem

Author:

Pius II, Pope, 1405-1464

Pius II WIKIDATA

Date:

between 1462 and 1470

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

In Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 66] leaves, bound (last leaf blank) : parchment ; 19 cm.

Former Owner(s):

A.G.T C.B

Note:

Caption title.
Terminal date based on note in Latin, dated June 8, 1470 at the chateau d'Amboise, by Jean Bouchart de la Vaucelle, bishop of Avranches between 1453 and 1484, in which he dedicated the ms. to Louis XI, for whom he served as adviser and confessor; cf. verso of leaf [66].
Caption title in red; text in brown ink; 24 lines per page in an italic hand; large illuminated initial "S" in burgundy and white on gold background, overlaid with drawing of French royal arms in blue and gold; illuminated ornamental border in burgundy, blue, and gold on three sides of text block; pictorial borders on four sides in green, blue, brown, and gold, containing human and animal...
Latin and English text published as Epistola ad Mahomatem II = Epistle to Mohammed II / Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini ; edited with a translation, and notes by Albert R. Baca. New York : Peter Lang, c1990.
Newer tan calf binding, with double blind-ruled borders on upper and lower boards; blind-stamped lozenge ornaments in spine compartments; dark blue gold-stamped spine label with title "Pii II Mahumeti epistola"; marbled endpapers.
Small ownership labels on front pastedown, and front endpaper, with initials "A.G.T." and "C.B." respectively.
Notes in a later hand second front endpaper, describing ms.; additional notes in the same hand on back endpaper, providing transcription of Boucart's note of 1470 on verso of last vellum leaf.

Keyword:

Islam

Interfaith relations

Christianity

Papal documents

Early works

Mehmed II, Sultan of the Turks, 1432-1481

Catholic Church

International relations

Turkey

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Institutional Record:

https://i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_NBY/i5mcb2/alma991822538805867

IIIF Manifest:

https://collections.newberry.org/IIIF3/Presentation/Manifest/2KXJ8ZPB587U

Holding Institution:

Newberry Library