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Letter to Bartholomeo Calcho

correspondent Galeazzo Sanseverino (Italian, 1458 - 1525)

Date5 June 1497

MediumInk on paper

Dimensions26.4 x 18.1 cm (10 3/8 x 7 1/8 in.)

ClassificationsManuscripts

Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Accession number2.b.3.3.6

eMuseum ID727044

Previous Number37F27e42-s

EmbARK ObjectID12557

TMS Source ID1637

Last Updated8/9/24

Status

Not on view

Web CommentaryIsabella 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.

BibliographyNotes

Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 251.

Seymour De Ricci with the assistance of W. J. Wilson. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New York,1935-40), I, p. 935, no. 35.

ProvenanceNotes

Collection of Charles Eliot Norton (1827–1908), scholar and critic, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from Charles Eliot Norton in 1908. (for a bound set of 8 letters)