Accession number
MS M.265
Object title
[Libro delle statuti e ordine dell'ordine del benedetto Spirito Santo].
Display Date
between 1575 and 1600.
Created
Italy, between 1575 and 1600.
Binding
16th- or 17th-century red morocco tooled in thin gold, imitating 16th century bindings made for Henri III and Louise de Lorraine; their arms joined on upper cover (crowned shields of France and Poland accosted) surrounded by the arms of the Order of the Holy Ghost, surmounted by a crown in which is the motto: Manet ultima coelo; on the lower cover the arms of France, with the combined initials of Henri and Louise beneath a fleur-de-lis in the corners.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1907.
Description
50 leaves (1 column, 19 lines), bound : vellum ; 220 x 160 mm
Provenance
Ex-munificentia Dom D (on second paper flyleaf); Al molto illustro et ossmo Sig.Gio.Batta Conti (on fol. 50v; perhaps Giovanni Battista Conte di Conti, father of the poet of the same name (1741-1820); purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Lodovico Badin in 1907; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms.; translation of the statutes of the Ordre du Saint Esprit; written in Italy, ca. 1575-1600.
Script
black and gold Roman letters
Language
Italian
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