Letter to Angelo Poliziano
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Girolamo Balbano
(active Rome, late 15th century)
correspondent
Innocent VIII
(Genoa, 1432 - 1492, Rome)
Date16 August 1487
Place MadeItaly, Europe
MediumInk on vellum
Dimensions28.8 x 22.6 x 1.6 cm (11 5/16 x 8 7/8 x 5/8 in.)
ClassificationsManuscripts
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession number2.b.3.4.4
eMuseum ID726993
Previous Number43F27e42-s
EmbARK ObjectID19461
Previous NumberDe Ricci 36.4
TMS Source ID6797
Last Updated8/9/24
Status
Not on viewWeb 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.
Paul Oskar Kristeller. Iter italcium accedunt alia itinera: a finding list of uncatalogued or incompletly catalogued humanistic manuscripts of the Renaissance in Italian and other libraries, vol. V (London, 1990), p. 222, no. 36.
Anne-Marie Eze. "Italian Illuminated Manuscripts at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum." Rivista di storia della miniatura (2012), pp. 91, 94.
Anne-Marie Eze in Jeffery F. Hamburger et al. Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; Newton: McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College; Cambridge: Houghton Library, Harvard University, 2016), p. 233, no. 2.
Paul Oskar Kristeller. Iter italcium accedunt alia itinera: a finding list of uncatalogued or incompletly catalogued humanistic manuscripts of the Renaissance in Italian and other libraries, vol. V (London, 1990), p. 222, no. 36.
Anne-Marie Eze. "Italian Illuminated Manuscripts at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum." Rivista di storia della miniatura (2012), pp. 91, 94.
Anne-Marie Eze in Jeffery F. Hamburger et al. Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; Newton: McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College; Cambridge: Houghton Library, Harvard University, 2016), p. 233, no. 2.
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)
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)
Francesco Donato
17 July 1547