Accession number
MS M.746
Object title
Itinerarius (MS M.746).
Created
Ferrara, Italy, 1465.
Binding
19th-century Italian black morocco, blind tooled with lines and fillets about a lozenge.
Description
138 leaves (1 column, 31-33 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 270 x 195 mm
Provenance
Erased arms of first owner on title page; owned ca. 1500 by Nicolaus (last name illegible; may be Comanssi, Coteani, or Comani); erased signature on fol. 109; purchased from Walter Toscanini in 1929.
Notes
Ms. travels; written and illuminated in Ferrara, Italy, in 1465.
Scribe: Niccolò Mascarino; colophon reads: Questo libro he stato scrito per mane de Nicholo mascharino del lano 1465 in ferrara.
Decoration: Illuminated title page with erased arms: party per fess, gules, and or, charged with a bend; in base three small circular objects gules; decorated with an initial D on gold ground; floral ornament.
Scribe: Niccolò Mascarino; colophon reads: Questo libro he stato scrito per mane de Nicholo mascharino del lano 1465 in ferrara.
Decoration: Illuminated title page with erased arms: party per fess, gules, and or, charged with a bend; in base three small circular objects gules; decorated with an initial D on gold ground; floral ornament.
Script
humanistic script
Language
Italian
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