Accession number
MS M.1022
Object title
Carta de floral (MS M.1022).
Created
Lisbon, Portugal, 1513.
Binding
Contemporary brown goatskin over wooden boards, tooled in blind with a knotwork roll; brass cornerpieces representing armillary spheres, and brass centerpieces with the Portuguese arms.
Credit line
Purchased from Mrs. Allerton Cushman and Mrs. Harold M. Landon; 1980.
Description
9 leaves (1 column, 25 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 300 x 210 mm
Provenance
Patrick King Rare Books, Stony Stratford, Bucks (catalogue 9, no. 42).
Notes
Ms. mercantile statutes issued to the town of Pedrogão Grande, Portugal; written and decorated in Lisbon, Portugal, and dated 1513.
Decoration: 1 decorated headpiece (with the Portuguese arms flanked by two armillary spheres, one with a date of 1513), 1 floral border.
Decoration: 1 decorated headpiece (with the Portuguese arms flanked by two armillary spheres, one with a date of 1513), 1 floral border.
Script
gothica textualis
Language
Portuguese
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