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Aeneid
Aeneid

Aeneid

author (Mantua, 70 BCE - 19 BCE, Brindisi)
scribe (active Brescia, about 1450 - 1475)
Dateabout 1450-1475
Place MadeBrescia, Lombardy, Italy, Europe
MediumInk on paper
Dimensions30 x 21.1 cm (11 13/16 x 8 5/16 in.)
ClassificationsBooks
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession number7.2.25
eMuseum ID721332
Previous NumberDe Ricci 10
EmbARK ObjectID17648
TMS Source ID5904
Last Updated8/9/24
Description1 vol., (140 leaves, 36 lines) : paper ; 30 cm.
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.
BibliographyNotesIsabella 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.
MarksNotesAffixed (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"
ProvenanceNotesCollection 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.