Accession number
MS M.1023
Object title
Missal (MS M.1023).
Created
Rome, Italy, ca. 1520.
Binding
Contemporary dark olive morocco, gold-tooled, with arms of the patron in the center of each cover; brass clasps, also with the arms of the patron.
Credit line
Gift of Mr. John A. Saks, 1980.
Description
236 leaves (1 column, 10 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 375 x 270 mm
Provenance
Made for Cardinal Bernardino López de Carvajal (Bernardino de Carvajal (1456-1523)); Arnold Collection (Berlin); William H. Schab Gallery, New York (catalogue 27, 1960, no. 10); John A. Saks; his gift to the Morgan in 1980.
Notes
Ms. missal for the use of Rome; written and illuminated in Rome, Italy, ca. 1520.
Decoration: 1 full-page and 4 smaller miniatures; 10 full-page borders, some with historiated roundels; 7 historiated and many illuminated initials.
Musical notation: 3 staves of 4 red lines with square notation.
Another manuscript made for the same cardinal and with a similar binding was sold at the Dyson Perrins sale, London, Sotheby's, Dec. 9, 1958, no. 40--Cf. Nineteenth report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978-1980.
Decoration: 1 full-page and 4 smaller miniatures; 10 full-page borders, some with historiated roundels; 7 historiated and many illuminated initials.
Musical notation: 3 staves of 4 red lines with square notation.
Another manuscript made for the same cardinal and with a similar binding was sold at the Dyson Perrins sale, London, Sotheby's, Dec. 9, 1958, no. 40--Cf. Nineteenth report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978-1980.
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textura
Language
Latin
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