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(Q16760)

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DS 2.0 Record
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date added
28 November 2023
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title as recorded
La sfera].
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genre as recorded
Manuscripts, Italian--Italy
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Manuscripts, Italian
Italy
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Manuscripts, Medieval--Italy
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Manuscripts, Medieval
Italy
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Poetry
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Poetry
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Humanistic scripts
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humanistic scripts
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Geography--Early works to 1800
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Geography
Early works
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Manuscripts, Medieval--Massachusetts--Boston
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Manuscripts, Medieval
Massachusetts--Boston
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Cosmography--Early works to 1800
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Cosmography
Early works
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Italy--Poetry
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Italy
Poetry
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production date as recorded
die vii Augusti 1484.
century
15. century
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fifteenth century (dates CE)
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1484Gregorian
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1484Gregorian
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physical description
Extent: 24 leaves : paper, ill., maps, diagrams ; 285 x 207 (195 x 90) mm
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material as recorded
paper, ill., maps, diagrams
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Paper
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note
Ms. codex.
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In Italian.
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Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
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Secundo folio: Vego la stella
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Collation: Paper codex (eagle watermark), fol. i (later paper) + 24 + i (later paper) ; 124 ; contemporary arabic pencil foliation.
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Layout: One or two columns, approx. 35 lines. Bounding and writing lines ruled in blind or light plummet.
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Script: Written in a humanistic cursive, hand of Gaspare, son of Antonio, in brown ink.
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Decoration: Maps, schematic diagrams and illustrations throughout fol. 1-15, including several T-maps, astronomical diagrams and a world map across fol. 12v-13. Spaces unfilled after fol. 15.
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Binding: ca. 19th-century [?] vellum over pasteboard panelled in double-ruled gilt; spine gilt-stamped "Date/La/Sphere" and "MS./ dated/ 1481").
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Origin: Written in Pesaro (Italy). Colophon: Scriptum Pisauri die vii Augusti 1484 per me Gasparem M. d. Antonii fidelis depiso de fidelibus die supradicta et hora vigesima tertia pulsate.
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Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased from William H. Schab in 1953 (catalog 15, no.42).
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Call number: MS f Med.125.
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Former call number: MS 1547.
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Bibliography: Jeffrey Hamburger, et al., eds. Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections. (Chestnut Hill: McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2016): no. 218; Margaret Munsterberg, "A Medieval Pilot-Book," BPL Quarterly VI (1954): 114-117; Zoltán Haraszti, "Notable Purchases," BPL Quarterly VII (1955): 77.
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date last updated
4 December 2023
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dated
Dated
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