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In laudem neapolitane civitatis et Fernandini regis brevis epistola ad amicum.

Accession number
MS M.267
Object title
In laudem neapolitane civitatis et Fernandini regis brevis epistola ad amicum.
Display Date
ca. 1480.
Created
Naples, Italy, ca. 1480.
Binding
German 19th-century green textile, lettered: Bandinus de Baroncellis Ms.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1907.
Description
23 leaves (1 column, 14 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 160 x 120 mm
Provenance
Written ca. 1480 for King Ferdinand I of Aragon, King of Naples; taken to Spain in 1550 with the Aragonese library by Ferdinand, Duke of Calabria, the grandson of Ferdinand I; bequeathed by him to the Monastery of San Miguel de los Reyes at Valencia; T.O. Weigel; his sale (Leipzig, July 12, 1898, no. 50); purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Olschki in 1907; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. laudatory description of Naples and of Ferdinand I, King of Naples; written and illuminated in Naples, Italy, ca. 1480.
Scribe and artist: Ioachinus de Gigantibus (Gioacchino, di Giovanni); signed on fol. 23.
Decoration: 1 full white-vine border frontispiece inset with birds, animals, and putti, and with the arms of Ferdinand I of Naples within a wreath at lower center; 2 illuminated white-vine initials.
Script
Roman letters
Language
Italian and Latin
Century
Classification