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Cambridge. Harvard University Library, MS Lat 298

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Source
Harvard University Library
Library
Houghton Library, Harvard University
Shelfmark
  • MS Lat 298
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Date
  • 1457
Language
  • Latin
Title
  • Letter to Christofore Felici : 1457 Nov. 10
Agent
  • Preferred form
    • Pie II (pape, 1405-1464)
    Role
    • Creator
    Original form
    • Pius II, Pope (1405-1464)
    Other form
    • Pie II (pape ; 1405-1464)
    • Pie II
    • Pius II (pape ; 1405-1464)
    • Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini
    • Pii II. Papae
    • Pius II
    • Pii II
    • Aeneae Sylvii
    • Pius II, papa
    • PIUS II (Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini), papa
    • Enea Silvio Piccolomini
    • Pius II papa
    • PIUS II, papa (Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini)
    • Pie II, pape
    • Author: Pius II, Papa
    • Pius II, Pont. Max.
    • Pius II, Pope
    • Pie II (1405-1464 ; pape)
    • Pope Pius II
    • Pius II, paus, 1405-1464 pausnaam van Eneas Silvio Piccolomini
    • Pius II., Papst, 1405-1464
    • Aeneas Silvius
    • Pius papa
    • Aeneaa Silvius Piccolomineus
    • Aenea Silvius Piccolomineus
    • Pius II Pont. Max.
    • Pie II, né Enea Silvio Piccolomini, 210ᵉ pape de l'Église catholique
    • Pío II, Papa, 1405-1464
    • Pius <II., Papa>
    • Pius <Papst, II.> / Enea Silvio Piccolomini
    • Igreja Católica, Papa 1458-1464 (Pio II)
    • Pius II (paus) - auteur
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  • Preferred form
    • Jacques Vellekoop (1926-2007)
    Role
    • Former owner
    Original form
    • Vellekoop, Jacques
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Description

  • Physical Description:
    1 item ; 13 x 22 cm.

    Summary:
    Addressed to his secretary, he writes of some errors in a little missal used in the cathedral that had been copied by Antonio Magistri of Lucca. He also refers to Ser Gorus the Cantor, or choirmaster, for whom the future pope was finding employment in Florence.

    Notes:
    Autograph letter, signed in Rome, written in a humanist script by Aeneas Sylvius while still cardinal-bishop of Siena, with red wax seal and paper flap.
    In a protective tray case, 28 cm.
    MS Lat 298. Houghton Library, Harvard University.

    Subjects:
    Antonio Magistri
    Felici, Christofore
    Gorus, ser
    Antonio Magistri
    Scriptoria -- Italy
    Manuscripts, Renaissance -- Italy
    Book industries and trade -- Italy -- History -- to 1500
    Copyists -- Italy -- Siena

    Form / Genre:
    Manuscripts, Medieval-Italy-1450-1500.
    Manuscripts, Renaissance-Italy-1450-1500.
    Seals.

Place
  • Preferred form
    • Italy
    Original form
    • Italy
    Other form
    • Italie
    • Italie (?)
    • Italie (Toscane?)
    • Italie (Venise ?).
    • Italie ?
    • Italie (région de Venise ?).
    • Italie (Florence ?)
    • Italie,
    • Italie.
    • Itàlia
    • Italien
    • Italia
    • Italië
    • Italie (Toscane ?)
    • Itàlia (Toscana?)
    • Italien (Toskana?)
    • Italy (Tuscany?)
    • Italia (Toscana?)
    • Italy (Verona)
    • Italy (Naples?)
    • Italy (Florence?)
    • Italy (Naples?)(
    • Italy (Rome?)
    • Italy (Florence)
    • Italy, Bologna (?)
    • Italy, probably Naples
    • Italy, Naples
    • Italy, possibly Naples
    • Italy (perhaps Bologna)
    • Italy (Nonantola)
    • Probably Northern Italy
    • Padua or Venice
    • Italy (Tuscany)
    • Italy, northern (?)
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Italy and France (?)
    • Most likely northern Italy
    • Probably northern Italy (Verona?)
    • [Italy]
    • Italy, copied by Leon ben Joshua de Rossi of Cesena
    • Italy [Ancona or Pesaro?], [copied by Joseph ben Nissim Fermi?]
    • [Italy] copied by Samson ben Elijah Halfan
    • Italy, Venice?
    • Fols. 2-4: [Italy]
    • Treviglio? (Italy)
    • Fols. 1-98: [Italy]; fols. 100-302: [Italy]
    • Rovere (della Luna, Trent?) (Italy)
    • Ff. 1-64: [Italy]
    • Italy, North?
    • Italy, Bologna?
    • Italy, Reggio-Emilia?
    • Italy, Padua?
    • Italy, Ferrara or Bologna
    • Italy, Padua or Rome
    • Italy, Ferrara?
    • Italy, Genoa?
    • Italy, Probably Padua
    • Italy, Parma or Cremona?
    • Italy, Padua or Venice
    • Italy, Lombardy or Bologna?
    • Italy, Umbria?
    • Italy, Rome?
    • Italy, Ferrara or Venice?
    • Italy, Northeast?
    • Italy, Bologna or Venice?
    • Italy, Veneto, Venice?
    • Italy, Rome or Naples
    • Italy, South?
    • Italy, Florence?
    • Italy, Verona?
    • Italy, Brescia or Padua?
    • Italy, Ferrara or Padua?
    • Italy, Venice or Padua
    • Italy, Cremona Brescia? and Bologna
    • Italy, Ferrara or Verona?
    • Italy, Urbino or Mantua(?)
    • Italy, Padua or Rome?
    • Italy, Naples?
    • Italy, North?, Siena?
    • Italy, Probably Venice
    • Italy, Venice or Treviso
    • Italy, North? or French, South?
    • Italy, Mantua or Ferrara?
    • Italy, Rimini?
    • Italy, Padua or Venice?
    • Italy, Florence or Rome
    • Italy, Northwest?
    • Italy, North, Genoa?
    • Italy, Lombardy or Verona
    • Italy, Emilia?
    • Italy, Venice or Verona
    • Italy, Veneto?
    • Italy, Emilia or Mantua?
    • Italy, Northeast, Ferrara?
    • Italy, Central?
    • Italy, Genoa (?)
    • Italy, Herculaneum(?)
    • IT
    • Italy.
    • Italië (?)
    • Italia (?)
    • [Italien (Teil 1)
    • [Italien ]
    • Italien (II)
    • Italien (II.)
    • Italien (I)
    • Italien (IV)
    • Itália
    • [Italië]
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