Boston Public Library, MS f Med.125

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DS ID:

DS3326

Shelfmark:

MS f Med.125

Title:

La sfera].

Author:

Dati, Gregorio, 1362-1436

Gregorio Dati WIKIDATA

Scribe:

De Fidelis, Gaspar

Gaspar de Fidelis WIKIDATA

Place:

Pesaro

Pesaro TGN

Date:

die vii Augusti 1484.

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ita

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 24 leaves : paper, ill., maps, diagrams ; 285 x 207 (195 x 90) mm

Former Owner(s):

Schab, William H

William H. Schab WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
In Italian.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Secundo folio: Vego la stella
Collation: Paper codex (eagle watermark), fol. i (later paper) + 24 + i (later paper) ; 124 ; contemporary arabic pencil foliation.
Layout: One or two columns, approx. 35 lines. Bounding and writing lines ruled in blind or light plummet.
Script: Written in a humanistic cursive, hand of Gaspare, son of Antonio, in brown ink.
Decoration: Maps, schematic diagrams and illustrations throughout fol. 1-15, including several T-maps, astronomical diagrams and a world map across fol. 12v-13. Spaces unfilled after fol. 15.
Binding: ca. 19th-century [?] vellum over pasteboard panelled in double-ruled gilt; spine gilt-stamped "Date/La/Sphere" and "MS./ dated/ 1481").
Origin: Written in Pesaro (Italy). Colophon: Scriptum Pisauri die vii Augusti 1484 per me Gasparem M. d. Antonii fidelis depiso de fidelibus die supradicta et hora vigesima tertia pulsate.
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased from William H. Schab in 1953 (catalog 15, no.42).
Call number: MS f Med.125.
Former call number: MS 1547.
Bibliography: Jeffrey Hamburger, et al., eds. Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections. (Chestnut Hill: McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2016): no. 218; Margaret Munsterberg, "A Medieval Pilot-Book," BPL Quarterly VI (1954): 114-117; Zoltán Haraszti, "Notable Purchases," BPL Quarterly VII (1955): 77.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Italian

Manuscripts, Medieval

Poetry

humanistic scripts

Geography

Cosmography

Italy

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444659

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archivelab.org/iiif/lasfera00dati/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library