Boston Public Library, MS q Med.287

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS3533

Shelfmark:

MS q Med.287

Title:

Li sonetti e canzon e capitoli del eccellentissimo Cosmico nobile Paduano.

Author:

Cosmico, Niccolò Lelio, 1420-1500

Niccolò Lelio Cosmico WIKIDATA

Scribe:

Girolamo, da la Motta, active 16th century

Girolamo da la Motta WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy]

Italy TGN

Date:

1537

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ita

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 103 leaves : paper ; 200 x 147 mm bound to 21 cm

Former Owner(s):

De Marco, Giovanni, active 20th century

Giovanni de Marco WIKIDATA

Govi, Fabrizio

Fabrizio Govi WIKIDATA

Enluminures (Firm)

Enluminures WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
In Italian.
Title and date from colophon on fol. 103r (see contents note)
Collation: Paper, with watermark showing a cardinal's hat, fol. i (later paper) + 103 + i (later paper) ; 16 210 36 410 56 610 76 810 96 1010 116 128+1(first leaf a singleton) 138 ; leaves unsigned, foliated in contemporary brown ink, these numbers used here for reference.
Layout: Single column, approximately 24 lines per page. Caligraphic initials set off into margins. Ruled in plummet. Written area: 180 x 9 x 79 mm
Script: Written in a humanist cursive in brown ink.
Binding: Recased in an early limp vellum wallet binding apparently taken from another book; textblock resewn and hinged into the binding via the modern paper flyleaves. Housed in a maroon cloth box.
Origin: Copied in Italy by one Hieronymo da la Motta on April 9, 1537 (see colophon). Based on his name, this scribe is possibly identifiable as Cardinal Girolamo Aleandro (1480-1542).
Provenance: Later inscriptions on fol. 103v: "Io Ciro" and "Signor mio Patre." From the library of Gianni De Marco, of Geneva, with his embossed stamp on the modern front flyleaf. Alga (2003) describes the present manuscript as having formerly been in the De Marco collection. Later to Govi Rare Books.
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased from Les Enluminures, Chicago, in July, 2022.
Call number: MS q Med.287.
Bibliography: Alga, S., ed. N. L. Cosmico, Le Cancion, Turin, 2003 (see pp. xiii-xiv, and pp. 103-104)

Keyword:

Tacketed bindings

Poetry

Inscriptions

Embossed stamps

Limp bindings

Vellum bindings

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, Italian

Flap bindings

Manuscripts, Medieval

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444900

IIIF Manifest:

https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/00002s24p/manifest

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library