Accession number
MS M.915
Object title
De potentium ac tenuium inter se officiis (MS M.915).
Display Date
Nov. 4, 1543.
Created
Rome, Italy, Nov. 4, 1543.
Binding
Dark brown morocco over pasteboard; covers decorated with tracery patterns of black morocco, gilt-painted, laid over red silk grounds; remains of four pairs of pink silk ties; edges gilt; indications are that the binding was made in Rome and later modified, perhaps in France, when it entered the library of King Henry II of France--Cf. Twelve centuries of bookbindings, 400-1600.
Credit line
Purchase; as a gift of the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library; 1962.
Description
26 leaves (1 column, 23 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 235 x 153 mm.
Provenance
An unidentified original owner; King Henry II of France; M. Kamensiki (his sale, Sotheby's, Dec. 1, 1874, lot 51); Ellis & White; Robert Hoe (his sale, Anderson, II, Jan. 16, 1912, lot 2432); Morgand (Bulletin, June 1912, no. 98); Louis Cartier (Paris, Mar. 1, 1962).
Notes
Ms. written and decorated in Rome, Italy, and dated Nov. 4, 1543.
It is possible that this is the author's holograph; if not, it may be the primary manuscript of this text; in the first printing and in subsequent editions it is entitled De officiis inter potentiores et tenuiores amicos--Cf. Twelfth report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1962.
Scribe: perhaps Fernando Ruano, scriptor latinus of the Vatican Library.
It is possible that this is the author's holograph; if not, it may be the primary manuscript of this text; in the first printing and in subsequent editions it is entitled De officiis inter potentiores et tenuiores amicos--Cf. Twelfth report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1962.
Scribe: perhaps Fernando Ruano, scriptor latinus of the Vatican Library.
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cacelleresca formata
Language
Latin
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