The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 1031

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DS ID:

DS9913

Shelfmark:

mssHM 1031

Title:

Eloquentię principis M. Tullii Ciceronis Ad Brutum Tusculanarum Quęstionum

Author:

Cicero, Marcus Tullius

Cicero WIKIDATA

Scribe:

Erizzo, Paolo, 1411-1470

Paolo Erizzo WIKIDATA

Artist:

Master of the Putti

Master of the Putti WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

between 1450 and 1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 87 : parchment ; 183 x 270 mm

Note:

Title from rubric.
Support: Parchment.
Script: Humanistic.
Layout: 1-810 96. Catchwords written horizontally between simple flourishes; quires and leaves evidently once signed in letter of the alphabet and arabic numeral (e.g. f. 73). 32 long lines, ruled in lead; pricking visible in lower margins.
Span folios: ff. 1-87v (f. 1 is a flyleaf)
Other Decoration: Decorated by the Master of the Putti; see L. Armstrong, Renaissance Miniature Painters & Classical Imagery (London 1981) 7-29, 117. Opening leaf, f. 2, with full border of dark red and green acanthus leaves on a blue ground, a cherub in the upper border and 2 sirens holding a coat of arms in the lower border; 7-line faceted initial in green on a dark red ground infilled with...
Acknowledgments: We thank Prof. Lilian Armstrong for the attribution of the decoration to the Master of the Putti, and for the relevant information about other manuscripts.
Assigned Date: s. XV2.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/31/2012.
Written in Venice and decorated by the Master of the Putti, who flourished between 1469 and 1473, for a member of the Venetian Erizzo family, whose coat of arms appears on f. 2: azure, on a bend or a hedgehog sable and the initial E (Rietstap, vol. 2, pl. 274). The Erizzo family owned three other manuscripts decorated by the Master of the Putti workshop; see Armstrong, Renaissance Miniature...

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

decorated initials

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862145

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:51523/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens