Accession number
MS G.41
Object title
Comoediae (MS G.41).
Created
Lombardy, Italy, ca. 1480.
Binding
Original blind-stamped calf over boards, rebacked, with brass studs and bronze clasps, remains of punch dotting.
Credit line
Gift of the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection, 1984.
Description
108 leaves (1 column, 30 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 261 x 180 mm
Provenance
Purchased in Nov. 1956 from Arthur Rau, Paris, 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 Lombardy, Italy, ca. 1480.
Each of the comedies has an argument and prologue.
Decoration: 6 large illuminated white-vine initials, 1 armorial roundel, numerous smaller illuminated initials.
Each of the comedies has an argument and prologue.
Decoration: 6 large illuminated white-vine initials, 1 armorial roundel, numerous smaller illuminated initials.
Script
humanistica rotunda.
Language
Latin
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