De finibus bonorum et malorum

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Accession number:

MS M.1002

Title:

De finibus bonorum et malorum

Created:

Signa, Italy, 1410.

Binding:

Previously in contemporary Florentine binding of brown leather over boards with original backstrip preserved, gilt line and scroll border; now in dark brown levant morocco, gilt and decorated paneled covers and spine, gilt edges, ca. 1940, in red morocco slipcase.

Credit:

Gift of John A. Saks, 1979.

Description:

140 leaves (1 column, 35 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 269 x 178 mm

Provenance:

Sir John Peachey (London, 1777, inscription on upper margin fol. 2); his son James, first Lord of Selsey of Westdean House, Sussex (d. 1808); Henry John Peachey, 3rd Baron Selsey (d.1838, his book plate: Westdean Library, 1813); his sale (London, Sotheby's, 20 June 1872, lot 557) to Quaritch; Henry Ellis Allen; Samuel Allen; his sale (London, Sotheby's, 30 January 1920, lot 25) to McPeake; William Randolph Hearst; his sale (New York, Parke-Bernet Galleries, part VI, 21 November 1939, lot 121); John A. Saks; gift of Mr. John A. Saks, 1979.

Notes:

Ms. classical literature; written and illuminated in Signa near Florence, Italy, in 1410.
Texts: Marcus Tullius Cicero, 1) De finibus bonorum et malorum (fols. 3-70v); 2) Tusculanarum disputationum (fols. 71-140).
Decoration: 1 full-page miniature, 1 historiated initial with historiated border, 14 illuminated initials with illuminated border decorations, some inhabited.
Artist: miniature and decoration attributed to Giovanni di Marco, also known as Giovanni dal Ponte, by Mirella Levi d'Ancona (1 September 1981).
Scribe: Johannis Bartholi, an Augustinian monk of Signa, near Florence, who signed and dated M.1002 February 1410 on fol. 140v: scriptum manu mei fratris Iohannis bartholi de signa florentinor[um] castro eg'gio ordinis heremitarii sancti Augustini exigui professoris. Anno domini. M.CCCC.X. mense februarij. Deo gratias.

Script:

textura

Language:

Latin

Resources:

Description/Bibliography

Century:

15th century

Genres:

Dated manuscripts

Illuminated manuscripts

Miniatures (Illuminations)