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Fiore di virtù and other moralizing verse (MS M.770).

Accession number
MS M.770
Object title
Fiore di virtù and other moralizing verse (MS M.770).
Created
Italy, possibly in Perugia, between 1450 and 1499.
Binding
Paper boards with geometrical design; vellum back.
Description
33 leaves (2 columns, 33-38 lines), bound : paper, ill. ; 290 x 220 mm
Provenance
Purchased from Giuseppe Martini in 1931 (catalogue 2, 1930, no. 11).
Notes
Ms. verse miscellany; written and decorated in Italy, perhaps in Perugia, in the second half of the 15th century.
Texts: Fiore di virtù (fol. 1-28v); an unidentified addition to Fiore di virtù (fol. 29-33); Epistola Lentuli de corpore Christi (fol. 33); Epistola ad Claudium Imperatorem (fol. 33).
Watermarks on text leaves: unicorn like Zonghi 778 (1418); Piccard 1707 (1436), (Wilna, 1698), (Rome, 1436); or Piccard 2493 (Venice, 1471)--Cf. PML files.
Watermarks on endpapers: crown over eagle in circle like Zonghi 778 (1599)--Cf. PML files.
Decoration: numerous figured and decorated initials; checkered patterns on shields and other marginal motifs.
Script
cursive script
Language
Italian
Century
Classification