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- MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO: EPISTOLAE AD FAMILIARES
- ORIGINAL RECORD OF A LITERARY FESTIVAL ON 29 JUNE 1496 IN THE HOUSE OF CARDINAL D'ESTE
- JACOBUS DE VAGNONIBUS: HIS FUIT LARCIBUS DOCTISSIMUS ILLE JACOBUS QUEM PEDEMONTANE PROGENUERE PLAGE. A POEM
- JACOBUS DE VAGNONIBUS: EPIGRAMMA AD PREDICTUM DOMINUM FUSCUM
- LUDOVICO ARIOSTO: IN DOMINUM PANDOLPHUM ARIOSTUS, A POEM
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Description |
MS in Latin and Greek on vellum, Firenze, Italy, ca. 1435-40, 156 ff. (complete), 35x25 cm, single column, (24x14 cm), 35 lines in an extremely fine regular round humanistic book script, headings in red capitals, the spaces in text filled with Greek minuscule and capitals, as well as further annotations in autograph by the humanist Giovanni Aurispa, the first owner. 13 illuminated historiated initials by Bartolomeo d'Antonio Varnucci. Texts 2-5: written 29 June 1496 in Italian cursive. |
Provenance |
1. Giovanni Aurispa, MS 355 (1370-1459); 2. Cardinal Ippolito d'Este, Ferrara (1479-1520); 3. Antonio Porunti (16th c.); 4. Laurence Witten (ca. 1950); 5. Philip Hofer, Cambridge, Massachusetts (until 1951); 6. Myron A. Hofer 2nd, Cambridge, Massachusetts (from 1951); 7. Maggs cat. 816(1953):147; 8. Sotheby's 6.12.1988:48; 9. Quaritch, London. 10. De-accessioned April 2014 to Jörn Günther |