Accession number:
MS M.773
Title:
Miscellany
Created:
Italy, perhaps Florence, ca. 1470.
Binding:
Previously in Italian stamped calf; repaired by Marguerite Duprez Lahey; now in 20th-century black goatskin, blind-tooled.
Description:
236 leaves (2 columns, 42 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 290 x 210 mm
Provenance:
Conte Eugenio Minutoli-Tegrimi, his collection at Lucca (catalogue, 1871, p. 33n); purchased from Lathrop C. Harper in 1931.
Notes:
Ms. written and illuminated in Italy, perhaps in Florence, ca. 1470.
Contains texts, chiefly by Jerome, but also by Origen, Augustine, Eusebius, Rufinus Presbyter, St. Cyril, St. Ignatius, and others.
Decoration: 2 large initials with white vine decoration, on blue grounds with white tracery and speckles; smaller gold leaf initials on colored grounds throughout the manuscript.
Script:
humanistic script
Language:
Latin
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