Accession number
MS M.773
Object title
Miscellany of letters, sermons, and religious commentary (MS M.773).
Display Date
ca. 1470.
Created
Italy, perhaps Florence, ca. 1470.
Binding
Previously in Italian stamped calf; repaired by Marguerite Duprez Lahey; now in 20th-century black goatskin, blind-tooled.
Description
236 leaves (2 columns, 42 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 290 x 210 mm
Provenance
Conte Eugenio Minutoli-Tegrimi, his collection at Lucca (catalogue, 1871, p. 33n); purchased from Lathrop C. Harper in 1931.
Notes
Ms. written and illuminated in Italy, perhaps in Florence, ca. 1470.
Contains texts, chiefly by Jerome, but also by Origen, Augustine, Eusebius, Rufinus Presbyter, St. Cyril, St. Ignatius, and others.
Decoration: 2 large initials with white vine decoration, on blue grounds with white tracery and speckles; smaller gold leaf initials on colored grounds throughout the manuscript.
Contains texts, chiefly by Jerome, but also by Origen, Augustine, Eusebius, Rufinus Presbyter, St. Cyril, St. Ignatius, and others.
Decoration: 2 large initials with white vine decoration, on blue grounds with white tracery and speckles; smaller gold leaf initials on colored grounds throughout the manuscript.
Script
humanistic script
Language
Latin
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