Caesar — Multiple dates; Italian, Florence; added decoration Italian, Ferrara
MS. E. D. Clarke 25
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Caesar — Multiple dates; Italian, Florence; added decoration Italian, Ferrara
Shelfmark
MS. E. D. Clarke 25
Place of origin
Italian, Florence; added decoration Italian, Ferrara
Date
c. 1430–40
added decoration 15th century, third quarter
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Decoration
Fine initials. Humanistic script. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 223). Ferrarese 15th century, third quarter, fine historiated initial with portrait of Ludovico Carbone, fol. 169v, by Jacobo Filippo d'Argenta added. On fol. 1a initial and border with arms, cut out from another MS., also Ferrarese of 15th century third quarter, has been pasted in. Humanistic script. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 418, pl. XLI) fol. 2r Type border, lower margin Subject Pasted in coat of arms in elaborate frame, cut out from another MS., also Ferrarese of the 15th century, third quarter. fol. 109v Type initial Q Subject Bird forms the tail of Q. fol. 169v Type initial L Subject Profile portrait of Ludovico Carbone by Jacobo Filippo d'Argenta.
Binding
Light green leather (16th cent.?).
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