University of Pennsylvania, Oversize LJS 48

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DS ID:

DS724

Shelfmark:

Oversize LJS 48

Title:

Instrumenta feudorum castri Sone : cum privilegio comitatus in personam Don Ioannis et fratrum ac descendentium de Faelis.

Scribe:

Medico, Alessandro di Nicolo

Alessandro di Nicolo Medico WIKIDATA

Ruffo, Francesco di Andrea

Francesco di Andrea Ruffo WIKIDATA

Place:

Verona

Verona TGN

Date:

1504-1530.

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 26 leaves : parchment ; 305 x 187 (224 x 113) mm bound to 310 x 185 mm

Former Owner(s):

Schoenberg, Lawrence J

Lawrence J. Schoenberg WIKIDATA

Cron, B. S

B.S. Cron WIKIDATA

Abbey, J. R. 1896-1969

John Roland Abbey WIKIDATA

Note:

Origin: Written in Verona in 1504.
Ms. codex.
Title from caption title (f. 3r).
Script: Written in humanistic script by Francesco di Andrea Ruffo (f. 3-17) and Alessandro di Nicolo Medico (f. 19-23), with a few documents copied by another hand (f. 1r-2v, 18r-18v).
Layout: Written in 30 long lines (f. 3r-18v) and 36 long lines (f. 19v-23v); ruled in faint ink with vertical bounding lines in lead visible on some leaves (f. 3r-19r) and ruled in lead with vertical bounding lines (f. 19v-26v)
Collation: Parchment, 26 + i (parchment); 1² 2-3¹⁰ 4⁴; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Binding: Original Veronese calf over wooden boards, blind-tooled; 4 catches, no clasps; rebacked.
Decoration: 1 11-line illuminated initial (f. 3r) and 3 illuminated initials (4- to 8-line) in left margins (f. 6v, 9r, 13v) by a pupil or follower of Veronese illuminator Felice Feliciano; red and blue paragraph marks on one opening (f. 3v-4r).
Formerly owned by J. R. Abbey, ms. no. JA 7387, 17 June 1967 (London; bookplate inside upper cover; inscription inside lower cover).
Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 20 June 1978, lot 2992.
Appears in Alan Thomas' cat. 18 (1967), no. 4.
Formerly owned by B. S. Cron, Kew, 1 July 1965 (inscription inside upper cover).
Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, June 1996.
Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
Sold at auction at Internationaal Antiquariaat (Amsterdam), 22 March 1961, lot 915.
Appears in H. P. Kraus' cat. 159 (1981), no. 9; handled subsequently by Martin Breslauer.
Sold at auction at Christie's, 3 Apr. 1996, lot 8.

Keyword:

illuminations (paintings)

Manuscripts, Latin

Manuscripts, Renaissance

notarial documents

codices (bound manuscripts)

deeds

Buildings

Faella, Giovanni

Italy--Verona

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9949377603503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3n64g/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania