Newberry Library, VAULT Wing MS ZW 141 .481

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS18230

Shelfmark:

VAULT Wing MS ZW 141 .481

Title:

Alphabet; forms and proportions of Roman capital letters

Alphabet

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

approximately 1480

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

In Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 24 leaves : paper ; 190 x 145 mm

Former Owner(s):

Ricketts, C. L. 1859-1941

Coella Lindsay Ricketts WIKIDATA

Note:

Manuscript codex.
Title devised by cataloger.
Collation: Paper (watermark of an arc, cf. Briquet, 812), fol. 24 ; 18 (1, 2, 7, and 8 loose) 28 (1 loose) 38, disbound.
Origin: Written in northern Italy in approximately 1480.
Formerly in the Andrea Teissier collection (Venice), his sale Munich, May 1900, lot number 895.
Former owner: C. L. Ricketts; Listed as no. 7 in the Checklist of the C. L. Ricketts Collection. Purchased from Jacques Rosenthal by C. L. Ricketts in 1907.
Forms part of the C. L. Ricketts Calligraphy Collection at the Newberry Library.

Keyword:

Early works

manuscripts (documents)

illuminated manuscripts

Alphabets

Roman capitals (Lettering)

Lettering

Calligraphy--Technique

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Institutional Record:

https://i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_NBY/i5mcb2/alma991931998805867

IIIF Manifest:

https://collections.newberry.org/IIIF3/Presentation/Manifest/2KXJ8ZS4GLZNA

Holding Institution:

Newberry Library