Accession number
MS M.821
Object title
Single leaf from Pope Boniface VIII's liber sextus decretalium.
Display Date
ca. 1330-1335.
Created
Bologna, Italy, ca. 1330-1335.
Credit line
Purchased in 1947.
Description
1 leaf (2 columns text, 2 columns gloss), matted : vellum, ill. ; 460 x 283 mm
Provenance
Purchased from Joseph Brummer, New York, in October 1947.
Notes
Ms. decretals single leaf written and illuminated in Bologna, Italy, ca. 1330-1335.
Texts: Liber sextus decretalium, Prologue incipit, of Pope Boniface VIII with the glossa ordinaria of Johannes Andreae (Giovanni d'Andrea)..
Decoration: 1 two-column miniature of the young Christ teaching in the temple, resting on a decorative band with historiated letters spelling BONIFACIUS, two historiated and two decorated initials.
Artist: Master of 1328 and an associate.
Texts: Liber sextus decretalium, Prologue incipit, of Pope Boniface VIII with the glossa ordinaria of Johannes Andreae (Giovanni d'Andrea)..
Decoration: 1 two-column miniature of the young Christ teaching in the temple, resting on a decorative band with historiated letters spelling BONIFACIUS, two historiated and two decorated initials.
Artist: Master of 1328 and an associate.
Script
textura
Language
Latin
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