Accession number
MS M.982
Object title
Philosophy nourishing the seven liberal arts, with Arithmetic, Astronomy, Music and a fourth art instructing (MS M.982).
Created
Salzburg, Austria, second third of the 12th century.
Credit line
Purchased on the Belle da Costa Greene Fund, with special gifts of the Glazier Fund, Dr. Ruth Nanda Anshen, Mrs. Harold M. Landon, and Miss Julia P. Wightman, 1978.
Description
1 single leaf : vellum, ill. ; 297 x 195 mm
Provenance
Professor Ung (Unger or Ungerer); E. Schultze (Vienna); Robert Forrer (Strasbourg); Baron Robert von Hirsch (Basle); his sale, London, Sotheby's, June 20, 1978, no. 2.
Notes
Ms. vellum leaf with full-page drawings on recto and verso; painted in Salzburg, Austria, in the second third of the 12th century.
The illustrations are probably from the De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii of Marianus Capella or the De consolatione philosophiae of Boethius.
According to Georg Swarzenski the leaf belongs to the "Liutold Group of manuscripts, one of which was made for Eberhardt, Archbishop of Salzburg from 1147 to 1164--Cf. Nineteenth report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978-1980.
The illustrations are probably from the De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii of Marianus Capella or the De consolatione philosophiae of Boethius.
According to Georg Swarzenski the leaf belongs to the "Liutold Group of manuscripts, one of which was made for Eberhardt, Archbishop of Salzburg from 1147 to 1164--Cf. Nineteenth report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978-1980.
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