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Sermones de tempore (MS B.53).

Accession number
MS B.53
Object title
Sermones de tempore (MS B.53).
Display Date
February 3, 1400.
Created
Tuscany, Italy, February 3, 1400.
Binding
17th century blind-tooled brown morocco.
Credit line
Bequest of Curt F. Bühler; 1985.
Description
158 leaves (2 columns, 43 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 330 x 230 mm
Provenance
Purchased by Curt F. Bühler in May 1967 from Lathrop C. Harper, New York (Cat. 26, no. 259).
Notes
Ms. written and decorated in Tuscany, signed by by an Honofrius, son of Johannes de Luca, and dated Feb. 3, 1400.
Translated by Giovanni da Tossignano.
Scribe: at least three scribes worked on this manuscript and the one now known as Pierpont Morgan Library. MS B.52; the last scribe has signed himself Honofrius, son of Johannes de Luca, and dated the manuscript: Hoc opus scriptum est per me Honofrium filium Johannes de Luca mensis Februarii die tertio MCCCC.
Decoration: numerous filigree initials.
Script
textura
Language
Italian
Century
Classification