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Carta de floral (MS M.1022).

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.
Script
gothica textualis
Language
Portuguese
Century
Classification