Accession number:
MS M.320
Title:
Diurnal
Created:
Pisa, Italy, 1543-1599.
Binding:
Italian 18th-century mottled green vellum; fragment of an old shelfmark pasted on spine with numbers 1 - 4 - 6 (may be C VI 4 16); in blue cloth box; binding repaired by Marguerite Duprez Lahey.
Credit:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1907.
Description:
126 leaves (1 column, 14 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 290 x 220 mm
Provenance:
Executed in the Carthusian monastery of Santa Maria-in-Vallis in Pisa, Italy, after 1543 (date of Paschal table on fol. 15v); later in the same 18th century Italian library as Pierpont Morgan Library MS M.319 (which has shelfmark C VI 4 16); purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Canessa in 1907; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes:
Ms. diurnal; written and illuminated in Pisa, Italy, in the Carthusian monastery of Santa Maria-in-Vallis, in the 16th century (after 1543).
Decoration: 12 historiated initials; historiated borders.
The illumination of M.320 is unfinished and exists at very many stages of completion. Some historiated initials and borders have been drawn in pencil outline, but not painted.
Script:
written in Italian textura
Language:
Latin and Italian
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