Dominici Capranici Card. Vita ad Card. Papien / (DS1215) (Q6505)
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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from University of Kansas (2963902, MS C247)
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | Dominici Capranici Card. Vita ad Card. Papien / (DS1215) |
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from University of Kansas (2963902, MS C247) |
Statements
Bracciolini, Giovan Battista, 1440-1470
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Ridolfini, Rinaldo
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North, Frederick, Earl of Guilford, 1766-1827
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Heber, Richard, 1773-1833
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Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872
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Fenwick, Katherine Somerset Wyttenbach, 1823-1913
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Fenwick, Thomas FitzRoy Phillipps, 1856-1938
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Cardinals--Biography--Early works to 1800
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Manuscripts, Renaissance--Kansas--Lawrence
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Manuscripts, Medieval--Kansas--Lawrence
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[between 1541 and 1560]
16. century
1541Gregorian
1560Gregorian
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Extent: 38 leaves : parchment, illuminations, frontispiece, coat of arms ; 228 x 156 (170 x 105) mm bound to 236 x 164 mm
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parchment, illuminations, frontispiece, coat of arms
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Title from opening rubric on folio 5r.
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Manuscript codex
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Collation: 38 (parchment, 1 and 38 are pastedowns): 1⁴ (1 is pastedown) + 2-4⁸ + 5⁸ (wants 8, possibly blank) + 6⁴ (wants 3, possibly blank; 4 is pastedown).
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Foliation: Original (?) pagination (1-62), beginning with quire 2, on folio 5r. Foliation supplied by cataloger.
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Catchwords: Horizontal catchwords in lower right corner of the text frame on folios 6v, 7v, 8v, 10v, 12v, 14v, 20v, 28v.
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Layout: Written in 21 long lines, above top line. Ruled in lead; written area also marked with a full frame in red.
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Script: Written by a single hand in Humanistic cursive.
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Decoration: A decorated frontispiece on folio 4v with the coat of arms of Dominicus Capranica, which later became the coat of arms of the Almo Collegio Capranica that was founded in 1457 in Rome, Italy (charged with an anchor tied to a hawser intertwined around three uprooted Cypress trees on a golden field and adorned with a cross bottony and a red galero with six tassels in three rows on...
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Binding: Early modern. Contemporary to the manuscript, possibly original, probably made in the mid-sixteenth century in a workshop in Rome, Italy. Bound in full leather dyed dark red, gold-tooled with wide floral frames made by a panel stamp and featuring painted shield of Dominicus Capranica at the center of both covers. Five raised bands. Gold-tooling on spine, with title area dyed light...
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Origin: Probably written in Rome, Italy in mid-sixteenth century.
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Former shelfmark: Phillipps MS 8274
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Shelfmark: Lawrence, University of Kansas, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, MS C247
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In relatively good condition despite water damage and staining on the first few leaves and ink smears on a few leaves. Staining on pastedowns from turn-ins. Frontispiece exhibits extensive abrasion and some pigment loss. Very few corrections. Doodle of a man with a sword on the lower half of folio 36r.
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The manuscript perhaps originally was commissioned by a member of the Capranica family or by the library of the Almo Collegio Capranica in Rome, based on the frontispiece with the coat of arms of Dominicus Capranica and the binding featuring his shield. Soon after, in the second half of the sixteenth century, the manuscript was probably in the possession of Rinaldo Ridolfini, a lawyer in...
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5 September 2023
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5 September 2023
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