Appears in Laurence Witten's catalog 5 (1962), no. 34.; Sold in the Sneyd collection at auction at Sotheby's, 16 Dec. 1903, lot 571.; Formerly owned by Jacopo Soranzo and Matteo Luigi Canonici; sold from the collection of Matteo Luigi Canonici to Walter Sneyd in 1835.; Sold by Laurence Witten (New Haven, Conn.), 1962.
21 leaves : parchment, color illustrations; 323 x 232 (240 x 168) mm bound to 332 x 236 mm
Personal Name:
Charles III, King of Naples, 1345-1386.; Canonici, Matteo Luigi, 1727-1805, former owner.; Sneyd, Walter, 1809-1888, former owner.; Soranzo, Giacomo, 1686-1761, former owner.
Corporate Name:
Ordre de la nef.
Notes:
Title supplied by cataloger.; Origin: Presumably copied sometime between the founding of the order on 1 December 1381 (date on f. 21 r) and the death of Carlo III in 1386.; Ms. codex.; Incipit: Cy commence le prologo de l'ordre de la Nef.; Foliation: Parchment, 21 + i (paper); [1-21]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.; Layout: Written in 40 long lines; ruled in ink.; Script: Written in a Gothic book script.; Decoration: 11-line initial depicting a ship without sails held up by two angels, in red, blues, lavender, brown, and gold. In a colored border at the bottom of the page is the coat of arms of a branch of the Malespina family, surrounded by two angels (f. 1r). Initials in alternating red and blue (f. 1r-9r), two with penwork ornamentation (f. 5r); initials are unfinished in the remainder of the text, but with guide letters visible.; Binding: 18th-century vellum.; Middle French.
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