Accession number:
MS M.824
Title:
Cerba
Created:
Siena, Italy, between 1375 and 1399.
Binding:
14th-century wooden boards with 1/4 deerskin, rebacked; clasps missing.
Description:
82 leaves (1 column, 36 lines), bound : paper ; 310 x 215 mm
Provenance:
Leo S. Olschki; Giuseppe Martini Collection, Lugano; H.P. Kraus (catalogue 44, 1948, no. 58); purchased from Kraus in Jan. 1948.
Notes:
Ms. encyclopedia in verse; written in Siena, Italy, in the late 14th century.
Paper watermark is similar to Briquet 15807 (Bologna, 1420); 15808 (Reggio-Emilia, 1422-28; Mantua, 1422); and Zonghi 748-751 (dated between 1381-1412).
Scribe: Ghinoccio di Tommè di Ugolino d'Alegretto of Siena, signed in the colophon on fol. 78v: finito illibro di cieccho dascholy al quale idio abby misericordia Amen Amen Amen Amen Quy scrissit scribat semper chum domino uiuat Ghinoccius de allegretty de civitate senarum.
Script:
semi-gothic minuscule
Language:
Italian and Latin
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