Accession number:
MS M.377
Title:
Missal
Created:
Milan, Italy, 1534-1535.
Binding:
Roman 16th-century brown morocco gilt, in brown slipcase.
Credit:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Description:
105 leaves (1 column, 18 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 352 x 255 mm
Provenance:
Executed for Girolamo Mattia, prior of the church of Santa Maria della Scala of Milan; given by him to the Chapter of Santa Maria della Scala; later apparently in the library of a church of the Roman rite where an unsuccessful attempt was made to erase parts of the text to convert it to Roman use; owned in the 19th century by the Marquis Gerolamo d'Adda (1815-1881, bookplate inside front cover); C. Fairfax Murray; T. De Marinis (catalogue VIII (1908), no. 46 plate XI); purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from De Marinis in 1909; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes:
Ms. missal for the Ambrosian rite; written and illuminated in Milan, Italy, in 1534 and 1535.
Decoration: 1 full-page miniature (signed Decius fa(cebit) and dated 1535) and 1 small miniature.
Artist: Agostino Decio.
Script:
Italian textura
Language:
Latin
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