MS. Sparrow 1
Contents
Language(s): Latin
2. (pp. 5–14)
Letters and poems Many relating to art. 3.
p. 5: Lud. Foscarinus to Antonio Baratella, dated 1439. Latin poem, 4 lines, perhaps by the same.
pp. 5–7: the same to the same, 1439
pp. 8: Barth. Hermanus Portunaonius, physicus, letter to Ant. Baratella, with poem.
pp. 8–9: Latin poem
pp. 9–10: Guarinus Veronensis, poem to Baratella, dated 1439
pp. 11–13: blank
p. 14: Poem, followed by note on the meter of art. 3
3. (pp. 15–110)
, Polidoreis 4. (pp. 114–116)
Blank.
6. (pp. 123–4)
Prayer Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: 126 pp.
Binding
15th century
Blind-tooled filleting.
Accompanying Material
MS. Eng. c. 7963, fols. 80–81, a letter to Sparrow of 1955 partly relating to a manuscript of Baratella, was formerly kept loose with this manuscript.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Bequeathed by John Sparrow (1906–1992).
Record Sources
Summary description (2017), based on P. Kristeller, Iter Italicum, IV (1989), 269, with additional notice of binding.
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