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Book/Printed Material Poem Concerning the Departure of the Magi. Carmen de profectione Magorum

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Title

  • Poem Concerning the Departure of the Magi.

Other Title

  • Carmen de profectione Magorum

Summary

  • This 15th-century manuscript, in Renaissance script, contains a poetic composition (De profectione Magorum adorare Christum et de innocentibus interfectis ab Herode) by a "Gabriel Volaterranus." The author was in all likelihood Gabriello Zacchi da Volterra, the archpriest (acting dean, vicar to the bishop) of the cathedral, who was from a culturally sophisticated background and died in 1467 at the age of 33. The author dedicates the work to Tommaso del Testa Piccolomini, the secret assistant of Pope Pius II (folio 132r), to whom Pius had granted the privilege of kinship with the Piccolomini family. In 1460 Tommaso was also awarded the title of imperial counselor by Federico III da Montefeltro, with the honor of adding the imperial eagle to his coat of arms; subsequently he was made bishop of Sovana and later bishop of Pienza. The presence of the imperial eagle in Testa Piccolomini's coat of arms within the decoration of the codex (folio 132r) suggests 1460 as the earliest possible plausible year for dating the manuscript. José Ruysschaert attributed the illuminated decoration, with its white vine-stem motifs, to Gioacchino de' Gigantibus, who was active in the early 1460s in the cultural circle of Pope Pius II. The manuscript is bound in a composite codex that gathers together five manuscripts of different age (dating from the end of the 13th century to circa 1521) and provenance, and which are also dissimilar in layout, graphic style, and format.

Names

  • Gigantibus, Gioacchino di Giovanne de, flourished 1453-1485 Illuminator.
  • Zacchi da Volterra, Gabriello, 1434-1467 Author.

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1460 to 1467]

Headings

  • -  Italy
  • -  1460 to 1467
  • -  Bible. New Testament
  • -  Codex
  • -  Illuminations
  • -  Latin poetry
  • -  Poetry

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  "Shelfmark: ms. H.VI.31[4]"--Note extracted from World Digital Library.
  • -  Original resource extent: 13 folios : parchment ; 206 x 137 millimeters.
  • -  Reference extracted from World Digital Library: Biblioteca comunale degli Intronati, The Biblioteca comunale degli Intronati for The James Madison Council: manuscripts, incunables, drawings and prints (Siena: 2011).
  • -  Original resource at: Municipal Library Intronati.
  • -  Content in Latin.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Source Collection

  • Illuminated Manuscripts from Europe

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021667844

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Gigantibus, Gioacchino Di Giovanne De, Flourished Illuminator, and Gabriello Zacchi Da Volterra. Poem Concerning the Departure of the Magi. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1467, 1460] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667844/.

APA citation style:

Gigantibus, G. D. G. D. & Zacchi Da Volterra, G. (1460) Poem Concerning the Departure of the Magi. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1467] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667844/.

MLA citation style:

Gigantibus, Gioacchino Di Giovanne De, Flourished Illuminator, and Gabriello Zacchi Da Volterra. Poem Concerning the Departure of the Magi. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1467, 1460] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021667844/>.