Manuscript/Mixed Material Image 1 of [Zibaldone of literary and scientific texts]

About this Item

About this Item

Title

  • [Zibaldone of literary and scientific texts]

Other Title

  • Rime e prose diversi

Created / Published

  • Florence, [1425-1475]

Notes

  • -  Italian
  • -  Ms. Codex.
  • -  Illustrated composite, palimpsested manuscript on parchment.
  • -  Layout: Single column of varying number of lines. Ruled in blind and plummet.
  • -  Script: Mercantesca script.
  • -  Decoration: Red ink headings, Lombard initials supplied in red throughout, many with blue penwork flourishes. Some capital letters touched with yellow. Sizteen drawings in color depicting celestial spheres, the zodiac, the eclipses, the climate and wind directions, a T-O map, and a mappamundi.
  • -  Text: This miscellany contains fifty-eight texts including Gregorio Dati (1362-1463), La sfera (fols. 28r-41v).
  • -  Binding: Nineteenth-century calf over pasteboards. Covers within order of gilt fillet and floral frieze in bild, gilt foliate cornerpieces. Spine with five raised bands underlined with gilt fillets, title lettered in gilt. Gilt edges. In a quarter-calf case with title "Rime e prose di diversi autori m.s. vell" in gold.
  • -  Richard Heber (1773-1833).
  • -  Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872).
  • -  Katharine, John, Thomas and Alan Fenwick, Cheltenham (1872-1946).
  • -  Lionel and Philip Robinson, booksellers.
  • -  Hans Peter Kraus (1907-1988), bookseller.
  • -  Schoyen Collection, MS 900. Deacessioned in December 2010.

Medium

  • 166 leaves, parchment ; ill. ; 270 x 170 mm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Ms. 214

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021659878

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

Additional Metadata Formats

IIIF Presentation Manifest

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Zibaldone of Literary and Scientific Texts. [Florence, to 1475, 1475] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021659878/.

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(1475) Zibaldone of Literary and Scientific Texts. [Florence, to 1475] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021659878/.

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Zibaldone of Literary and Scientific Texts. [Florence, to 1475, 1475] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021659878/>.