Accession number
MS G.36
Object title
Libro degli uomini famosi.
Created
Venice, Italy, ca. 1405.
Binding
15th-century Italian brown goatskin over boards, blind tooled, with original brass corners, studs, and clasps.
Credit line
Gift of the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection, 1984.
Description
146 leaves (2 columns, 54 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 308 x 231 mm
Provenance
Original (?) arms on fol. 1 (per fesse azure and or, a lion rampant counterchanged); Ulrico Hoepli, Milan; purchased in Nov. 1955 from William H. Schab for William S. Glazier (1907-1962), New York; deposited in the Pierpont Morgan Library by the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection in 1963.
Notes
Ms. written and illuminated in Venice, ca. 1405.
Translated into Italian by Donato degli Albanzani da Pratovecchio.
Decoration: 4 miniatures, 8 historiated initials, 30 marginal drawings, mostly of hands in various positions and holding different objects; floral and inhabited borders.
Artist: Cristoforo Cortese.
Translated into Italian by Donato degli Albanzani da Pratovecchio.
Decoration: 4 miniatures, 8 historiated initials, 30 marginal drawings, mostly of hands in various positions and holding different objects; floral and inhabited borders.
Artist: Cristoforo Cortese.
Script
hybrid script.
Language
In Italian,
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