Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Canzionere and other texts.

Accession number
MS M.326
Object title
Canzionere and other texts.
Display Date
15th century.
Created
Italy, 15th century.
Binding
Doeskin (perhaps 15th century); originally painted green; the ties are missing.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1910.
Description
160 leaves (1 column, 28 lines), bound : vellum and paper ; 240 x 170 mm
Provenance
Initials T.N. on fol. 148; Niccolini family of Florence (stamp P.N. in a circle on first vellum leaf); sold ca. 1830 to Payne and Foss (probably catalogue, February 1830, no. 1155); purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Marcocchia in 1910; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms.; written in southern Italy in the 15th century.
The first two leaves are vellum; the remainder is paper.
Scribe: attributed to a south Italian scribe.
Script
cursive humanistic script
Language
Italian
Century
Classification