Accession number
MS B.10
Object title
De amicitia (MS B.10).
Display Date
ca. 1450-1460.
Created
Florence, Italy, ca. 1450-1460.
Binding
Vellum over boards.
Credit line
Bequest of Curt F. Bühler; 1985.
Description
99 leaves (1 column, 21 lines), bound : vellum ; 199 x 122 mm
Provenance
W. Ashburner; his sale, Lucerne, Ulrico Hoepli, Aug. 26, 1938, lot 47; purchased by Curt F. Bühler in Nov. 1938 from E.P. Goldschmidt, London.
Notes
Ms. de amicitia, written in Florence, Italy, ca. 1450-1460.
Texts: De amicitia (folios 1-68); Fiori e vita di filosafi ed altri savii ed imperadori (folios 68v-98) , attributed to Brunetto Latini and discussed by Hermann Varnhagen, Über di Fiori e Vita di Filosofi ed altri Savii ed imperadori, Erlangen, 1893, p. xxvii.
Script and illumination attributed verbally to Joachinus de Gigantibus by Albinia de la Mare, in the mid 1980s.
Decoration: 2 illuminated initials.
Texts: De amicitia (folios 1-68); Fiori e vita di filosafi ed altri savii ed imperadori (folios 68v-98) , attributed to Brunetto Latini and discussed by Hermann Varnhagen, Über di Fiori e Vita di Filosofi ed altri Savii ed imperadori, Erlangen, 1893, p. xxvii.
Script and illumination attributed verbally to Joachinus de Gigantibus by Albinia de la Mare, in the mid 1980s.
Decoration: 2 illuminated initials.
Script
humanistica rotunda
Language
Italian
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