Letter to Spinello Benci from Rome

correspondent Roberto Bellarmino (Montepulciano, 1542 - 1621, Rome)

Date10 October 1592

Place MadeRome, Lazio, Italy, Europe

MediumInk on paper

ClassificationsManuscripts

Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Accession number2.b.3.4.8

eMuseum ID726576

EmbARK ObjectID12568

Previous Number48F27e42-s

TMS Source ID1647

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.

BibliographyNotesSeymour de Ricci and W.J. Wilson. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, Vol. I (New York, 1935), p. 936, no. 36.

ProvenanceNotesCollection of Charles Eliot Norton (1827–1908), scholar and critic, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from Charles Eliot Norton on 24 March 1908 for $2,000. (for set of 8 letters, 2.b.3.4.1-8)