(Q47396)

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Manuscripts, Renaissance--Italy--1450-1500
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Extent: 48 leaves, bound : vellum, ill. ; 20 cm.
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Written in Florence in a humanistic cursive script, with a white vinestem initial and coat of arms (Capponi family?) within frontispiece border, possibly illuminated by Antonio di Niccolò di Lorenzo.
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In a 15th-cent. blind-tooled leather binding. in a protective tray case, 21.5 cm.
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In a protective tray case, 22 cm.
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Belonged possibly to the Capponi family of Florence; purchased by the Reverend Henry Drury in 1821; his sale, London, Evans, to Thorpe for Sir Thomas Phillipps (MS 3385); his sale, London, Sotheby's, 10 June 1896, no. 1247, to Quaritch.
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Purchased with the Charles Minot Bequest, 1897.
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23 July 2024
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23 July 2024
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