Accession number:
MS M.382
Title:
Expositio hymnorum
Created:
Foligno, Italy, 1593.
Binding:
Italian 16th-century red morocco, gold-tooled with flowers, foliage, and arabesques; interlacing ribbon painted black; Italian imitation of French fanfare designs; the Aldobrandini arms in central oval plaques on each cover.
Credit:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1907.
Description:
145 leaves (1 column, 29-31 lines), bound : paper, ill. ; 150 x 110 mm
Provenance:
Written and illuminated in 1593 at Foligno as a gift for Pietro Aldobrandino (1571-1621; created cardinal 1593); his ex libris inside front cover; Gruel and Engelmann collection; D. Morgand (inv. no. 28326); Edouard Rahir sale (London, Sotheby's, June 20, 1902, no. 107) to Falby; Edouard Rahir (Reliures historiques, 1907, no. 30); purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Rahir on May 15, 1907; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes:
Ms. hymnal with critical commentary; written and illuminated in Foligno, Italy, in 1593.
Compiled by Gabriele Barnabò of Foligno of the Order of St. Augustine.
On fol. 144-145: De laude, virtute et efficacia Psalmorum.
Scribe: Marco Treggi; signed on fol. 131: scriptum per D(omi)num Martium Treggiam Fulginatem. MDLxxxxiij.
Decoration: 2 armorial headpieces with arms of Pietro Aldobrandini (azure, a bend embattled counterembattled between six estoiles or); illuminated initials throughout, some with arms.
Script:
cursive
Language:
Latin
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