Accession number
MS B.25
Object title
Laude spirituali (MS B.25).
Created
Northern Italy, between 1450 and 1475.
Binding
Original blind-stamped black goatskin over wooden boards.
Credit line
Bequest of Curt F. Bühler; 1985.
Description
107 leaves (varying number of columns and lines), bound : paper, ill. ; 166 x 118 mm
Provenance
Purchased by Curt F. Bühler in July 1957 from Laurence Witten, New Haven (cat. 4, no. 75).
Notes
Ms. written and decorated in north Italy in the 3rd quarter of the 15th century.
Texts: a collection of numerous short prose tracts in Latin, Latin sermons and orisons, about seventy-five short poems in Latin and Italian, some of them "Laude," a university masque, a goliardic debate, and other texts.
Decoration: 5 diagrams, 2 filigree initials.
Musical notation: musical settings in plainsong notation on four-line staves.
Texts: a collection of numerous short prose tracts in Latin, Latin sermons and orisons, about seventy-five short poems in Latin and Italian, some of them "Laude," a university masque, a goliardic debate, and other texts.
Decoration: 5 diagrams, 2 filigree initials.
Musical notation: musical settings in plainsong notation on four-line staves.
Script
Gothic cursive, textura, humanistica cursive
Language
Latin and Italian
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