Liber Taxarum of Tomasso Spinelli

Description

Title: Liber Taxarum of Tomasso Spinelli
Published / Created: [ca. 1440-1450].
Publication Place: Florence or Rome
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of a document containing information about ecclesiastical taxes, notes on Herod the Great and his successors, a letter from Pope Gregory VII (1073-1085), etc
Description: In Latin.
Script: copied by a single hand writing Humanistica Libraria/Formata. Marginal additions by the same hand.
Illuminated frontispiece picturing the coats-of-arms of Spinelli, of the city of Florence, and of Pope Eugenius IV.
Binding: contemporary binding: brown leather over wooden boards, both covers blind-tooled with frames of fillets, a roll and rope tools.
Provenance: The manuscript belonged to Tommaso Spinelli (1397-1472) and was no doubt made on his order. In 1988 it was acquired, together with the whole family archive, from the Spinelli family of Florence.
Extent: ff. 100 : 225 x 155 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Florence (Italy)
Subject (Name): Eugene IV, Pope, 1383-1447.
Spinelli, Tommaso, 1397-1472.
Subject (Topic): Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Eugene IV, Pope, 1383-1447
Spinelli, Tommaso, 1397-1472
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Florence (Italy)
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Liber Taxarum of Tomasso Spinelli. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.