Life of St. Francis (La leggenda del beate messere sancto franciescho)

Shelfmark The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, 73 E 35

Origin & date Italy; c. 1450-1500 (?) (f. 77v: 16th century?)

Physical description

Vellum, ff. 77, 302x220 (240x158) mm, 2 columns, 43-44 lines, littera textualis. Italian. Binding: 19th-century half leather (before 1807)

Illumination

2 drawings, 1 historiated initial (drawing); penwork initials with pen-flourishes (ff. 'r, 'v, 2v, 4r, 6v, etc.)

Provenance

P.-A. Bolongaro-Crevenna; purchased in 1790 at his sale at D.J. Changuion & P. den Hengst, Amsterdam (cat. 26 April, Vol. 4 (1789), p. 58 no. 5991) by J. Romswinckel of leyden; acquired in 1807 as part of the collection of Romswinckel

Bibliography

Brandhorst & Broekhuijsen-Kruijer 1985, no. 470

All catalogue fields

Type	Manuscript book
NU	xx
Language of record	nl
Source project(s)	MSS; BYVANCK; KBMSS
Shelfmark (Dutch)	Den Haag, KB, 73 E 35
Title (index form)	La leggenda del beate messere sancto franciescho; Life of St. Francis
Language of origin code	it
Place of origin	Italy
Date of origin	1450-1500(?); 1500-1600(?)
Related names/collections	Romswinckel, J., Coll.; Bolongaro-Crevenna, P.-A.; Changuion, D.J. & P. den Hengst, Amsterdam (auct. 1790)
Cataloguer's note	JL, ask 5-00
Language	Italian
Language (Dutch)	Italiaans
Classification code	01 A 5
Geographic code	01 IT

3 illuminations catalogued

f. 1rdrawing (coloured)

St. Francis of Assisi showing his stigmata

1450-1500(?)

11H(FRANCIS)

All catalogue fields

Sequence no.	668
Sequence (global)	9931
Shelfmark	The Hague, KB, 73 E 35
Shelfmark (Dutch)	Den Haag, KB, 73 E 35
Image size (mm)	101x41
Type	manuscript illumination
Cataloguer's note	tgvgd
Scene order key	1r
Language of origin code	3 Italy
Note	Not available = 73e35_001r.jpg

f. 62vdrawing

St. Francis of Assisi receives the stigmata

1450-1500(?)

11H(FRANCIS)59

All catalogue fields

Sequence no.	669
Sequence (global)	9932
Shelfmark	The Hague, KB, 73 E 35
Shelfmark (Dutch)	Den Haag, KB, 73 E 35
Image size (mm)	237x164
Type	manuscript illumination
Cataloguer's note	tgvgd
Scene order key	62v
Language of origin code	3 Italy
Note	Not available = 73E35_062V_MIN.JPG

f. 77vdrawing

The Crucifixion, with Christ on the cross, alone

1450-1500(?)

73D66

All catalogue fields

Sequence no.	670
Sequence (global)	9933
Shelfmark	The Hague, KB, 73 E 35
Shelfmark (Dutch)	Den Haag, KB, 73 E 35
Image size (mm)	283x152
Type	manuscript illumination
Cataloguer's note	tgvgd
Scene order key	77v
Language of origin code	3 Italy
Note	Not available = 73E35_077V_MIN.JPG