Object details
Object number
2.b.3.4.4
Creator(s)
Title
Letter to Angelo Poliziano
Date
16 August 1487
Medium
Ink on vellum
Language
Italian
Publication Place
Rome
Dimensions
28.8 x 22.6 x 1.6 cm (11 5/16 x 8 7/8 x 5/8 in.)
Provenance
Collection of Charles Eliot Norton (1827–1908), scholar and critic, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from Charles Eliot Norton on 24 March 1908 for $2,000. (for set of 8 letters, 2.b.3.4.1-8)
Commentary
Isabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
Bibliography
Seymour de Ricci and W.J. Wilson. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, Vol. I (New York, 1935), p. 936, no. 36.
Paul Oskar Kristeller. Iter italcium accedunt alia itinera: a finding list of uncatalogued or incompletly catalogued humanistic manuscripts of the Renaissance in Italian and other libraries, vol. V (London, 1990), p. 222, no. 36.
Anne-Marie Eze. "Italian Illuminated Manuscripts at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum." Rivista di storia della miniatura (2012), pp. 91, 94.
Anne-Marie Eze in Jeffery F. Hamburger et al. Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; Newton: McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College; Cambridge: Houghton Library, Harvard University, 2016), p. 233, no. 2.
Gallery
Long Gallery
Case
Dante Case
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