Accession number
MS M.441-442
Object title
Lectura super codicem.
Display Date
1438.
Created
Naples, Italy, 1438.
Binding
20th-century limp vellum.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), 1910.
Description
2 v. (171, 305 leaves) (2 columns, 50 lines), bound : paper, ill. ; 410 x 290 mm.
Provenance
Made in 1438 for Jacopo de Fucio, a Neapolitan jurist; Marchese Taccone of Naples; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Alexandre Imbert in July 1910; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. written and illuminated in Naples, Italy, in 1438.
The text of M.441-442 is unfinished.
Pierpont Morgan Library MS M.441 is written in notarial semi-cursive script only; Pierpont Morgan Library MS M.442 uses notarial, semi-cursive, textura, and cursive scripts.
The scribe of Pierpont Morgan Library MS M.441 is Berteramus de Forciato de Castellucio; colophon on fol. 169v: Quam scripsit Ego Berteramus de Forciato de Castellucio ad mandatum domini mei Domini Jacobi de Fucio de Neapoli in legali scientia professoris...et eam ad finem produxi currente anno navitatis domini nostri Ihesu Christi M.CCCC.XXXVIII secunde indictionis die XXI mensis Januarii...Rege Alfonso Regnante; the scribes of Pierpont Morgan Library MS M.442 are Berteramus de Forciato de Castellucio (fol. 1-152) and Petrus Pictzenini (fol. 154-240).
Decoration: illuminated title page on fol. 1r of Pierpont Morgan Library MS M.441 (headpiece, decorated initials, and vine-scroll border).
Artist: perhaps Petrus Pictzenini.
The text of M.441-442 is unfinished.
Pierpont Morgan Library MS M.441 is written in notarial semi-cursive script only; Pierpont Morgan Library MS M.442 uses notarial, semi-cursive, textura, and cursive scripts.
The scribe of Pierpont Morgan Library MS M.441 is Berteramus de Forciato de Castellucio; colophon on fol. 169v: Quam scripsit Ego Berteramus de Forciato de Castellucio ad mandatum domini mei Domini Jacobi de Fucio de Neapoli in legali scientia professoris...et eam ad finem produxi currente anno navitatis domini nostri Ihesu Christi M.CCCC.XXXVIII secunde indictionis die XXI mensis Januarii...Rege Alfonso Regnante; the scribes of Pierpont Morgan Library MS M.442 are Berteramus de Forciato de Castellucio (fol. 1-152) and Petrus Pictzenini (fol. 154-240).
Decoration: illuminated title page on fol. 1r of Pierpont Morgan Library MS M.441 (headpiece, decorated initials, and vine-scroll border).
Artist: perhaps Petrus Pictzenini.
Script
notarial, semi-cursive, textura, and cursive scripts
Language
Latin
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