Carmina varia

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Accession number:

MS M.867

Title:

Carmina varia

Created:

Naples, Italy, ca. 1475.

Binding:

Vellum over paper boards with 18th-century gilt end papers, typical of the carta bassonese used in Soranzo bindings.

Credit:

Gift; William S. Glazier; April 8, 1953.

Description:

39 leaves (1 column, 19 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 219 x 133 mm

Provenance:

Giambattista Recanati (d.1735); Giacomo Soranzo (1686-1761); Abbot Matteo Luigi Canonici (1727-1806); purchased by Rev. Walter Sneyd; his sale (London, Sotheby's, Dec. 19, 1903, lot 799) to Charles Fairfax Murray; purchased by Tammaro De Marinis in 1909; Jacques Rosenthal of Munich; Erwin Rosenthal of Zurich (L'Art Ancien); sold to W.H. Schab, New York (Catalogue no. 19: Rare Books and Manuscripts of the XVth, XVIth and XVIIth centuries, 1953, no. 29, illus.); purchased from Schab by William S. Glazier in 1953; gift of William S. Glazier April 8, 1953.

Notes:

Ms. poetry, written and illuminated in Naples, Italy, ca. 1475.
Texts: 1) Giovanni Gioviano Pontano, Carmina varia, dedicated to Laurentio Miniato (fol. 1-34); 2) Gregorio Tifernate, Amoris triumphus (fol. 35-37).
Decoration: 2 decorative title pages, one with full border and historiated initial, the other with minature framed by architectural cornice, unidentified arms on both pages (party per pale, or and azure, on the dexter side four barrulets sable), 57 painted initials historiated with putti and other classicizing images.
Artist: Lilian Armstrong attributed the illumination to one of the best followers of the Master of the Putti (see Renaissance Miniature Painters and Classical Imagery, p. 120); Albinia de la Mare attributed it to the Putti Master himself (see Friedman, p. 280).

Script:

humanistic

Language:

Latin

Resources:

Description/Bibliography

Century:

15th century

Genres:

Illuminated manuscripts

Miniatures (Illuminations)

Historiated initials