Newberry Library, VAULT Wing MS ZW 141 .48

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS18234

Shelfmark:

VAULT Wing MS ZW 141 .48

Title:

Alphabets, geometrically constructed, textura and rotunda letters

Alphabets

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

approximately 1480

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

In Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 11 leaves : paper ; 213 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 a couronne, cf. Bruquet 476), 11 leaves ; 1 disbound quire of 10 leaves, fol. 11 loose on different paper.
Origin: Written in northern Italy, as indicated by the paper, in the 2nd half of the 15th century (approximately 1480).
Former owner's inscription on fol. 1r: "Milan, 1885."
Former owner: C. L. Ricketts; Listed as no. 5 in the Checklist of the C. L. Ricketts Collection; sold by Jacques Rosenthal to Ricketts in 1907.
Forms part of the C. L. Ricketts Calligraphy Collection at the Newberry Library.

Keyword:

Early works

Italian rotunda (script)

textura (Gothic script)

manuscripts (documents)

illuminated manuscripts

Lettering

Alphabets

Calligraphy--Technique

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Institutional Record:

https://i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_NBY/i5mcb2/alma991933178805867

IIIF Manifest:

https://collections.newberry.org/IIIF3/Presentation/Manifest/2KXJ8ZSL75ZMD

Holding Institution:

Newberry Library