Wellesley College, P860

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DS ID:

DS16414

Shelfmark:

P860

Title:

Dialogus Microtirum et Theogenium =; Theogenius sive de republica /

Author:

Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472

Leon Battista Alberti WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

1475-1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ita

Italian WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: v, i, 48, v leaves : parchment ; 217 x 138 (147 x 85) mm

Former Owner(s):

Cora, Luigi

Luigi Cora WIKIDATA

Note:

Collation: Parchment. 12, 2-510, 68−1, one leaf cancelled after fol. 47. Vertical catchwords. Modern pencil foliation starts with [3] on f. 4, but used here for reference.
Layout: 1 column, 27 lines. Bounding and writing lines ruled in light brown plummet.
Decoration: Two 3- to 4-line gold initials throughout with white vine infill on blue and dark red background, white vines with gold-leaf bands.
Script: Written in a humanistic bookhand in black ink. Rubrics in blue and red epigraphic capitals or red humanistic bookhand.
Origin: Written in Italy in the late fifteenth century for one "A. Z." whose arms appear in the lower margin of the first page (per fess gules a stag trippant proper; in base undy or and azure). Owned soon thereafter by one "Z. P." whose arms appear opposite the first page (or a pilgrim sable, standing in front view), possibly belonging to the Pellegrini family of Verona.
Belonged in 1897 to Luigi Cora.

Keyword:

Manuscripts

Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek

Wellesley College Library

Conduct of life

Early works

Manuscripts, Italian

Massachusetts--Wellesley

Institutional Record:

https://libcat.wellesley.edu/Record/in00000626429

IIIF Manifest:

https://repository.wellesley.edu/node/31312/manifest

Holding Institution:

Wellesley College