Accession number:
MS B.48
Title:
Horologium sapientiae
Created:
Italy, probably Padua, ca. 1460.
Binding:
Vellum.
Credit:
Bequest of Curt F. Bühler; 1985.
Description:
146 leaves (1 column, 28 lines), bound : paper, ill. ; 217 x 145 mm
Provenance:
Unidentified owner; his arms (sable, a chevron embowed or, 3 estoiles of 6 points or) on fol. 1; Matteo Luigi Canonici (1727-1805); Walter Sneyd; his sale (London, Sotheby's, 19 December 1903, lot 755) to Quaritch?; George Dunn; purchased by Curt F. Bühler in Dec. 1965 from Bernard M. Rosenthal, New York (Cat. 18, no. 37).
Notes:
Ms. Italian translation of Henricus Suso's Horologium sapientiae; written and illuminated in Italy, probably Padua, ca. 1460.
Decoration: 1 illuminated initial, 1 unidentified coat of arms.
Script:
humanistica cursiva
Language:
Italian
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