Accession number
MS B.48
Object title
Horologium sapientiae (MS B.48).
Display Date
ca. 1460.
Created
Italy, probably Padua, ca. 1460.
Binding
Vellum.
Credit line
Bequest of Curt F. Bühler; 1985.
Description
146 leaves (1 column, 28 lines), bound : paper, ill. ; 217 x 145 mm
Provenance
Unidentified owner; his arms (sable, a chevron embowed or, 3 estoiles of 6 points or) on fol. 1; Matteo Luigi Canonici (1727-1805); Walter Sneyd; his sale (London, Sotheby's, 16 December 1903, lot 23) to Thomas; George Dunn; his sale (London, Sotheby's, 2 February 1914, lot 718) to Leighton; purchased by Curt F. Bühler in Dec. 1965 from Bernard M. Rosenthal, New York (Cat. 18, no. 37).
Notes
Ms. Italian translation of Henricus Suso's Horologium sapientiae; written and illuminated in Italy, probably Padua, ca. 1460.
Decoration: 1 illuminated initial, 1 unidentified coat of arms.
Decoration: 1 illuminated initial, 1 unidentified coat of arms.
Script
humanistica cursiva
Language
Italian
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