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De oratione (MS M.1102).

Accession number
MS M.1102
Object title
De oratione (MS M.1102).
Display Date
1440-1449.
Created
Florence, Italy, 1440-1449.
Binding
15th-century North Italian knitwork-stamped goatskin, remains of two fore-edge brass clasps on lower cover.
Credit line
Gift of Lydia L. Redmond, in memory of her mother and stepfather, Mr. and Mrs. William M. Clearwater, 1996.
Description
140 leaves (1 column, 32 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 260 x 165 mm
Provenance
Herman Charles Hoskier (1864-1938), South Orange, New Jersey; his sale (London, Sotheby's, 29 June 1908, lot 674) to Quaritch; Walter T. Wallace; his sale (New York, 1920, lot 228) to the Lexington Book Company; Giuseppe Martini?; William M. Clearwater, Tuxedo Park, New York; Mrs. Lydia L. Redmond; gift of Lydia L. Redmond in memory of her mother and stepfather, Mr. and Mrs. William M. Clearwater, in 1996.
Notes
Ms. de oratione, written and illuminated in Florence, Italy, ca. 1440-1449.
Decoration: 3 large and 3 smaller white vine initials with leaf gold
Script
humanistic script
Language
Latin
Century
Classification