Search Results for Italytag:mt.wiglaf.org,2024:/cgi-bin//feed/Italy2024-03-29T13:22:07ZMovable Type 5.2.611111Morgan Library - M.361tag:mt.wiglaf.org,2016:/bohdb//14.9282016-09-14T04:21:06Z2016-09-14T04:44:00ZAaron Mackshttp://www.wiglaf.org/~aaronm/
Morgan Library M.361 is one more of the Italian books of hours, this one from Florence. The calendar is sparse, perhaps the least populated calendar I've seen so far, with only 118 entries. The entries are a perfect case study...
Morgan Library - M.305tag:mt.wiglaf.org,2016:/bohdb//14.9272016-09-13T22:42:56Z2016-09-14T01:19:14ZAaron Mackshttp://www.wiglaf.org/~aaronm/
We've not yet run out of Italian books from the Morgan Library. M.305 is localized to Florence, dated circa 1495. The calendar is nearly complete, containing 340 entries and all 12 zodiac entries, so only 12 empty lines. It also...
Morgan Library - M.56tag:mt.wiglaf.org,2016:/bohdb//14.9262016-09-11T23:13:17Z2016-09-11T23:32:08ZAaron Mackshttp://www.wiglaf.org/~aaronm/
Morgan Library M.56 is a tiny northern Italian Book from the second half of the 15th century. The hours are illuminated in the somewhat florid late Italian Gothic, but the calendar is quite plain, with just a simple blue KL...
Morgan Library - W.29tag:mt.wiglaf.org,2016:/bohdb//14.9152016-08-24T00:22:08Z2016-08-24T00:30:09ZAaron Mackshttp://www.wiglaf.org/~aaronm/
Morgan Library W.29 is a small, pretty book of hours from somewhere in northern Italy, perhaps Ferrara, as per the catalogue. The calendar is not very well done, there are only about 120 days populated, and the scribe did not...
Morgan Library - M.1052tag:mt.wiglaf.org,2016:/bohdb//14.9142016-08-22T22:35:43Z2016-08-22T23:10:08ZAaron Mackshttp://www.wiglaf.org/~aaronm/
Some more from the Morgan Library, I was able to work through 13 books in 2 days, though M.1172, despite being lovely, is without a calendar. The first added, M.1052, is from Naples, as testified to by several saints in...
Boston Public Library - MS q.med 131tag:mt.wiglaf.org,2016:/bohdb//14.9102016-08-14T22:21:14Z2016-08-14T22:35:47ZAaron Mackshttp://www.wiglaf.org/~aaronm/
BPL MS q.med 131 (not available in their online catalogue), is a tiny (largest dimension is <4"), early (1320-1330) book of hours, Fransiscan Use, from Camerino, Italy. Despite the small size, the calendar is clear and readable where the ink...
Houghton Library - Typ 553tag:mt.wiglaf.org,2016:/bohdb//14.8962016-06-24T04:08:31Z2016-06-24T04:19:16ZAaron Mackshttp://www.wiglaf.org/~aaronm/
Harvard's Houghton Library MS Typ 553 is a weird Use of Rome Book from the late 15th century, only localized to "Northern Italy". The calendar is unevenly populated, 5 saints in March compared to 20 in January, and has a...
Morgan Library - M.80 and M.1083tag:mt.wiglaf.org,2016:/bohdb//14.8872016-06-02T23:21:09Z2016-06-02T23:27:55ZAaron Mackshttp://www.wiglaf.org/~aaronm/
These are the last two of the Morgan Library books from my recent visit, so we'll be back to sharable images soon. M.80 is a beautifully calligraphed Milanese manuscript written by Sigismondo de'Sigismondi in a flourishy Italian Gothic. The calendar...
Morgan Library - M.57 and M.315tag:mt.wiglaf.org,2016:/bohdb//14.8862016-06-01T03:56:31Z2016-06-01T03:59:32ZAaron Mackshttp://www.wiglaf.org/~aaronm/
Two more of the Italian books from the Morgan Library have been uploaded, M.57 and M.315. M.315 is interesting due to the number of Vigils, several not previously seen in the Corpus. M.57 is more unusual in terms of decoration,...
Morgan Library - M.311tag:mt.wiglaf.org,2016:/bohdb//14.8852016-05-27T20:28:18Z2016-05-27T20:35:25ZAaron Mackshttp://www.wiglaf.org/~aaronm/
Another of the Books from the Morgan Library, M.311 is a northern Italian, perhaps Florence or Sienna, manuscript from the late 15th C. Though not marked as such in the catalogue, the calendar has a strongly Augustinian focus, with a...
Morgan Library - M.227tag:mt.wiglaf.org,2016:/bohdb//14.8842016-05-23T21:05:29Z2016-05-23T21:10:57ZAaron Mackshttp://www.wiglaf.org/~aaronm/
Morgan M.227 is the first of six Books that I transcribed in the reading room of the Morgan Library in New York. Although pictures are allowed for personal reference, I'm not allowed to post any of them. This is a...