Accession number:
MS M.859
Title:
Epistolae diversae
Created:
Padua, Italy, 1410.
Binding:
Italian 15th-century sheepskin dyed red over wooden boards, blind stamped with a great variety of stamps (agnus dei, eagle, flowers, mask) and stamped with its own provenance on front cover: Iste liber est sancte ivstine de padua, rebacked, remains of 3 clasps, one on each edge, catches on lower cover, edges plain.
Description:
70 leaves (1 column, 35-36 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 250 x 173 mm
Provenance:
Written in 1410 in the monastery of Santa Giustina, Padua; listed in the 1724 inventory of S. Giustina manuscripts as shelfmark YY.56 (this mark appears on front flyleaf verso, as well as the mark A.E.4); Sir Thomas Phillipps (no. 9655); Phillips Sale (London, Sotheby's, 14 May 1897, lot 395) to Quaritch; George Dunn of Wooley Hall near Maidenhead (ex-libris on front pastedown); his sale (London, Sotheby's, 13 Feburary 1913, lot 390) to Quaritch; E.P. Goldschmidt (ex-libris on front pastedown); purchased from Goldschmidt in 1952.
Notes:
Ms. anthology of letters of the Church fathers, written and decorated in Padua, Italy, in the monastery of Santa Justina, in 1410 (dated by the scribe on fol. 22: Explicit... quas frater rolandus monachus sce Justine vginis de Padua scripsit M.IIII.X. Indict. II Septimo idus Junii).
Decoration: 1 pen drawing of a monk's head on last flyleaf, probably not contemporary with the writing of the manuscript; monks' faces sketched in brown ink within the bowls of several large penwork initials.
The motto "Otium sine l[itte]ris Mors est" - Leisure without learning is Death - is written on the back flyleaf verso in dark brown ink.
Scribe: Rolando Casali of Padua (his name appears in rubrics on fols. 22 and 67v).
Script:
minuscule
Language:
Latin
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