Object details
Object number
7.2.25
Creator(s)
Title
Aeneid
Date
about 1450-1475
Medium
Ink on paper
Language
Latin
Publication Place
Brescia
Binding Description
Red-brown leather, blind and gilt-tooled, blue-stained edges (19th century)
Description
1 vol., (140 leaves, 36 lines) : paper ; 30 cm.
Dimensions
30 x 21.1 cm (11 13/16 x 8 5/16 in.)
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings
Affixed (front pastedown): armorial bookplate of Nathaniel Cholmley (1721-1791)
Inscribed in pencil (recto, front flyleaf): "Purchased of Thorpe 1825 / £ 12-12-0"
Inscribed (top of p.1): "S(anct)i Barnabae Brixiae : ad usu(m) fr(atr)is Cherabi(m)...[illegible]"
Inscribed (top of p.1): "f(rate)r Paulus D(e) perg(am)o V(icarius) . G(eneralis) . Manu p(ropri)a . R(estitu)t(um)" [Brother Paul of Bergamo, prior of San Barnaba, Brescia and Vicar General of Augustinians]
Inscriped (Colophon on p. 277): "Publij maronis virgilij eneis per iohannam de rovado tra(n)scripta est die xxviiij m(en)s(is) nove(m)br(is) ora s(er)a."
Inscribed (top of pp. 85, 106, 109, 111, 122, 143, 145, 205): "Jesus"
Inscribed (top of p. 114): "Jesus Christus"
Provenance
Collection of Augustinian monastery of San Barnaba, Brescia, probably late 15th century.
Collection of Paul of Bergamo (Paulus Lulmius, 1414-1494), prior of San Barnaba and Vicar General of Augustinians.
Collection of Nathaniel Cholmley (1721-1791), Esquire of Whitby and Howsham, Yorkshire.
Purchased by the bookseller Thomas Thorpe, London for £12.12 in 1825.
Collection of the scholar and critic Charles Eliot Norton (1827–1908), Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Gift from Charles Eliot Norton to Isabella Stewart Gardner, June 1904.
Commentary
Isabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
Bibliography
Isabella Stewart Gardner. A Choice of Manuscripts and Bookbindings from the Library of Isabella Stewart Gardner, Fenway Court (Boston, 1922), p. 26.
Seymour de Ricci with the assistance of W. J. Wilson. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, Vol. 1 (New York, 1935), p. 932, no.10.
Virginia Brown. “Iohanna de Rovado” (Scribe) and a Manuscript of Virgil from Brescia." Fenway Court (1986), pp. 20-29.
Greti Dinkova-Bruun (ed.). The Classical Heritage of Virginia Brown. (Toronto, 2014).
University of Pennsylvania Libraries. Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts, no. 42815, accessed 4 November 2016.
Gallery
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