Libro degli uomini famosi
Accession number:
MS G.36
Title:
Libro degli uomini famosi
Created:
Venice, Italy, ca. 1405.
Binding:
15th-century Italian brown goatskin over boards, blind tooled, with original brass corners, studs, and clasps.
Credit:
Gift of the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection, 1984.
Description:
146 leaves (2 columns, 54 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 308 x 231 mm
Provenance:
Original (?) arms on fol. 1 (per fesse azure and or, a lion rampant counterchanged); Ulrico Hoepli, Milan; purchased in Nov. 1955 from William H. Schab for William S. Glazier (1907-1962), New York; deposited in the Pierpont Morgan Library by the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection in 1963.
Notes:
Ms. written and illuminated in Venice, ca. 1405.
Translated into Italian by Donato degli Albanzani da Pratovecchio.
Decoration: 4 miniatures, 8 historiated initials, 30 marginal drawings, mostly of hands in various positions and holding different objects; floral and inhabited borders.
Artist: Cristoforo Cortese.
Script:
hybrid script.
Language:
In Italian,
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