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Collection of Eight Manuscripts
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Collection of Eight Manuscripts

author (Venice, 1493 - 1569, Ostiglia)
author (Montepulciano, 1454 - 1494, Florence)
author (Montepulciano, 1542 - 1621, Rome)
author (Naples, 1497 - 1564, Latera, Italy)
Date1487-1606
MediumInk on paper
ClassificationsManuscripts
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession number2.b.3.4.1-8
eMuseum ID726679
Original Number2.b.3.4
TMS Source ID24154
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
Seymour de Ricci and W.J. Wilson. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, Vol. I (New York, 1935), p. 935, no. 36.
Edward Williamson. Bernardo Tasso, Storia e letteratura: raccolta di studi e testi, 39 (Rome, 1951), pp. 163-164.

ProvenanceNotes
Collection 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)