Accession number:
MS M.920
Title:
Trionfi
Created:
Florence, Italy, March 10,1447.
Binding:
19th-20th-century gold silk velvet.
Credit:
Purchased as the gift of the Fellows, 1965.
Description:
47 leaves (1 column, 24 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 229 x 150 mm
Provenance:
Owned by members of the Strozzi family of Florence (Strozzi arms on fol. 1 and fol. 47); on the front pastedown signatures in a 15th-century cursive script of Filippo Strozzi (1428-1528) and his son Lorenzo (1482-1549), on the front flyleaf recto the name of Lorenzo Strozzi's younger brother Filippo (1488-1538), followed by the name of his wife Clarice (1493-1528), also the Strozzi library stamp with the motto Expecto; Walter Toscanini and Co. of Milan (Catalogue, 1929, no. 76); Adrian Van Sinderen of New York; purchased from Mrs. Adrian van Sinderen as a Gift from the Fellows in 1965.
Notes:
Ms. poetry, written and illuminated in Florence, Italy, Mar. 10 1447 (1446 Florentine style).
Decoration: 1 decorated title page with full illuminated border in white vine decoration with Strozzi arms in lower border center (or, on a fess gules, three crescent moons argent), 14 white vine initials, 1 full-page illuminated Strozzi device on fol. 47 (rectangular frame, three crescents against a blue circle of clouds with rays emanating from them, on a rose ground, outlined in green).
Colophon on fol. 46: lege feliciter. Scripti fuerunt per me Gherardum Florentinum de Anno Domini MCCCC.XLVI. indictione decima, de mense Martii. Deo gratias.
Textiles: velvet binding.
Scribe: Gherardo del Ciriagio.
Script:
humanistic script
Language:
Italian and Latin
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