Accession number
MS M.426
Object title
De sphaera mundi.
Created
Naples, Italy, last quarter of 15th century.
Binding
Original 15th-century blind-tooled brown morocco over wooden boards, blind-tooled panel with four-petaled flower design, a braided rope surrounding an inside border; 4 hinges, lacking clasps.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in July 1910.
Description
76 leaves (1 column, 16 lines), bound : vellum (some purple), ill. ; 190 x 130 mm
Provenance
Written for Diomede Carafa (ca. 1406-1487) at Naples in the last quarter of the 15th century; shopping list and annotation on fol. 4 in a 16th century hand; probably Marchese Taccone of Naples collection; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Alexandre Imbert in July 1910; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. astronomical treatise; written and illuminated in Naples, Italy, in the last quarter of the 15th century.
Scribe: Giovan Marco Cinico, who signed Ioannes Marcus Velox in the colophon on fol. 76v.
Decoration: prefatory page (fol. 4v) of purple vellum with Carafa emblem of a steelyard (balance) between two stretcher-circles; title page (fol. 6) with illuminated initial and white vine border containing the Carafa emblem and arms (gules 3 fesses argent on shield); 4 astronomical marginal illustrations.
Scribe: Giovan Marco Cinico, who signed Ioannes Marcus Velox in the colophon on fol. 76v.
Decoration: prefatory page (fol. 4v) of purple vellum with Carafa emblem of a steelyard (balance) between two stretcher-circles; title page (fol. 6) with illuminated initial and white vine border containing the Carafa emblem and arms (gules 3 fesses argent on shield); 4 astronomical marginal illustrations.
Script
humanistic script
Language
Italian
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