Accession number
MS M.383
Object title
Il fior di battaglia /
Display Date
ca. 1410-20
Created
Venice (or Padua), Italy, ca. 1410-20
Binding
At time of accession, red morocco by J.Clark; lettered. Trattato della scherma. Re-bound by Duprez-Lahey in quarter tan Levant goatskin with block-printed decorative paper sides and leather corner; this binding retained two single parchment flyleaves that appear to have been part of the J. Clark binding. Manuscript was disbound in the Thaw Conservation Center in 2017.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Description
20 leaves (2 columns, 39-40 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 277 x 195 mm
Provenance
According to Francesco Novati in his 1902 edition of the Flos duellatorum in armis, sine armis, equester, pedester, Pierpont Morgan Library MS M.383 is the lost codex MCCLXI of the Biblioteca Soranzo at Venice (Library of Jacopo Soranzo, Venetian senator, fl. 18th century) sold in 1780; Matteo Luigi Canonici (1727-1805); his sale London, Sotheby's, June 25, 1836, no. 40) to Rev. Walter Sneyd of Bagington Rectory, Coventry; his sale (London, Sotheby's, Dec. 19, 1903, no. 720) to Ellis; T. De Marinis, catalogue 8, 1908, plate 9); purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from T. de Marinis in 1909; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. written, decorated, and illustrated in Venice or Padua, Italy, ca. 1410-20.
Artist: two Venetian or Veronese artists, followers of Altichiero.
Decoration: 124 pen drawings throughout the text; decorative title page.
The illustration of M.383 is unfinished. Several pen drawings have not been completed.
A manuscript of the same text, which also was executed in the Venetian region in the early 15th century, can be found in the J.Paul Getty Museum, MS Ludwig XV 13 (83.MR.183); see the Ludwig catalogue, v. 4, p. 282-288.
Artist: two Venetian or Veronese artists, followers of Altichiero.
Decoration: 124 pen drawings throughout the text; decorative title page.
The illustration of M.383 is unfinished. Several pen drawings have not been completed.
A manuscript of the same text, which also was executed in the Venetian region in the early 15th century, can be found in the J.Paul Getty Museum, MS Ludwig XV 13 (83.MR.183); see the Ludwig catalogue, v. 4, p. 282-288.
Script
small humanistic script
Language
Venetian dialect of Italian
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