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Epistolae.

Accession number
MS M.477
Object title
Epistolae.
Created
Italy, possibly Ferrara, 1475.
Binding
Original oak boards and stamped leather.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1911.
Description
386 leaves (1 column, 36 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 350 x 240 mm
Provenance
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Alexandre Imbert in 1911; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. written and illuminated in Italy, perhaps in Ferrara, in 1475.
Texts: Saint Jerome, Epistolae (fol. 1-373); Saint Augustine, De cura pro mortuis gerenda (fol. 373-386).
Scribe: Ferens; signed (FRMS MESRP IT) and dated (MCCCC LXXV) on fol. 343v.
Artist: Francesco di Lorenzo Rosselli.
Decoration: 1 illuminated frontispiece with historiated floral border; 1 historiated initial with portrait of Saint Jerome.
Script
humanistic script
Language
Italian
Century
Classification