Cambridge. Harvard University Library, MS Richardson 23

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Harvard University Library
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  • MS Richardson 23
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Language
  • Latin
Title
    • De laudibus Mediolanensium urbis
    • De rebus gestis a Nicolao Picenino
    • Breve epitome romane historiae
    • Philippi Mariae Vicecomitis Mediolanensium ducis tertii vita
    • Opuscula P. Candidi : manuscript, [ca. 1460-1465]
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Description
  • Physical Description:
    98 leaves, bound : vellum, ill. ; 27 cm.

    Notes:
    Written in a humanistic script in 1 column of 30 lines; one miniature illustrating 2 angels holding the coat of arms of Borso d'Este, attributed to the Master of Ippolita; 4 initials in burnished gold with interlace vines and secondary initials in blue or red. Dedication to Borso d'Este in gold capitals.
    Presentation copy for Borso d'Este of Ferrara.
    Title from f. 3v.
    Written in Italy by a Milanese scribe with textual corrections ("notabilia") in Decembrio's hand appearing in red in the margins.
    Bound in 18th-cent. Italian white vellum over thin boards.
    In a tray case, 30 cm.
    MS Richardson 23. Houghton Library, Harvard University.

    Subjects:
    Filippo Maria Visconti, Duke of Milan, 1392-1447
    Piccinino, Nicolo, -1444
    Milan (Italy) -- History -- To 1535
    Rome -- History

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

    Contents:
    1. De laudibus urbis mediolanensis (ff. 4r-22v) -- 2. De vita Philippi Marie tercii mediolanensis ducis (22v-55r) -- 3. De rebus gestis a Nicolao Picenino (55r-83r) -- 4. De historia romana epitoma ad regem (83r-97v).

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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