Compendium moralium notabilium

Cristoforo Corteseearly 15th century

Details

Title: Compendium moralium notabilium
Creator: Cristoforo Cortese, and Novella Master, and Heremias de Montagnone
Date: early 15th century
Location Created: Venice, Veneto, Italy
Physical Dimensions: Leaf: 36.8 x 26 cm (14 1/2 x 10 1/4 in.)
External Link: Find out more about this object on the Museum website.
Medium: Tempera colors, pen and ink, and gold leaf on parchment bound between wood boards covered with red velvet
Object Type: Manuscript
Number: Ms. Ludwig XIV 8
Markings: Markings: Marked fols. 1 and 1v, bas-de-page, painted arms of Orseoli of Padua.
Inscription: Secondary Inscription: Inscribed fol. 8, lower outside corner (erased),"Ister liber est monasteri Sanctorum Jeronimi et B[ernardi] ordinis cartusiensis prope Paduam, Signatus per R.E." On a piece of parchment inserted between fol. 281 and the back flyleaf, in ink, obits for Gentiles (Hector, Alexander, Julius Caesar), Jews (Joshua, David, Judas Maccabaeus) and Christians (King Arthur, Charlemagne, Godefridus); inscription in Hebrew; on the verso, in pencil, "Traité de philosophie de la fin du 13e et comm[encemen]t du 14e" Inscribed back flyleaf, recto, in black ink, in nineteenth-century hand: notes signed by "M. Bonus" concerning the life and works of Montagnone.
Culture: Italian
Classification: Manuscripts

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