Ps.-Jerome — 1486–1499; Italian, Padua or Venice (?)

Title

Ps.-Jerome — 1486–1499; Italian, Padua or Venice (?)

Shelfmark

MS. Canon. Liturg. 301

Associated place

Venice

Place of origin

Italian, Padua or Venice (?)

Date

1486–1499

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Decoration

Fine historiated border.

Fine initials.

By Benedetto Bordone of Padua . Humanistic script attributed to Pierantonio Sallando who was then at Padua. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 626, pl. LX)

Binding

15th century, end (as MS.), Venice: wood boards, narrow inside bevel; brown leather; all-over blind and gilt tooling and painting, with small red highlights in Ottoman-inspired design, and initials and arms of N[iccolò] F[ranco], E[p.] of T[reviso, 1485/6–1499] on each board (the surviving initials are on the outside corners, probably replicated on the inside corners now hidden by reback); arms painted red under a mitre, echoing fol. 1r; traces of two lost fore-edge clasps; edges gilt, gauffered; fly-leaves of green or purple parchment (characteristic of Sallando). Rebacked in matching leather with gilt lines and gilt green-leather label, paste-downs and flyleaves of carta bassanese, 18th century, Italian, Venice, for Jacopo Soranzo (= Sor. 837 in quarto). 229–231 137–140 28 (book closed).

Title

'Sancti Hieronymi presbyteri Martylogium Sanctorum per singulos anni dies ...'

Shelfmark

MS. Canon. Liturg. 301

Summary

'Sancti Hieronymi presbyteri Martylogium Sanctorum per singulos anni dies ...', Dec. 24-Dec. 23. St. Jerome is painted on fol. 1.

Date

Written in the second half of the 15th century in Italy

Language

Latin

Physical facet

On parchment, binding is a stamped design on leather partly gilt, with the letters NFET at the corners (Italian): the back is modern

Physical extent

93 Leaves

Custodial history

On fol. 1 and on the binding are the arms of Nicolao Franco bp. of Treviso (1486-99).