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Subject(s)

• Cyrus the Great, King of Persia -530 B.C. or 529 B.C.—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Iran—Kings and rulers—Biography—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Iran—History—To 640—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—Italy—Genoa [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Illumination of books and manuscripts [Browse]

Translator

Bracciolini, Poggio, 1380-1459 [Browse]

Former owner

• Canonici, Matteo Luigi, 1727-1805 [Browse]
• Kane, Grenville, 1854-1943 [Browse]

Bookseller

Voynich, Wilfred Michael, 1865-1930 [Browse]

Related name

Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Kane MS. 22. [Browse]

Notes

• Script: Humanistica antiqua.
• Decoration: Fol. 1r* open with a 9-line historiated initial C (Cvm), depicting the translator Poggio Bracciolini kneeling before the seated King Alfonso V of Aragon and Naples, with a page standing behind them and green hills and a city in the background. This leaf also has a full border of interlaced green leaves, with blue and rose-colored flowers and leaves, the two bottom green foliate swirls containing a rabbit in the center of each, gold ground outlined black; below, two putti dressed in blue and rose, with green wings, support what appear to be erased arms.

Binding note

England, 19th century. Light brown calf over pasteboard, blind-stamped and ruled on the upper and lower covers and along the fore-edges and turn downs.

Provenance

Kane MS. 22 was produced around 1460 in northwestern Italy, probably Genoa. The manuscript's intermediate provenance is unknown. It was in the library of the Venetian Jesuit [Abate] Matteo Luigi Canonici (1727-1805).The present manuscript was sold on 10 June 1920 as part of the Greene sale at Sotheby's London. The London and New York antiquarian bookseller Wilfrid M. Voynich (1865-1930) later acquired the manuscript, and in 1929 it was sold to Grenville Kane (1854-1943), of Tuxedo Park, N.Y. His bookplate is on the inside front cover, and his pencil note is on the flyleaf. Princeton University Library acquired the manuscript from Kane's heirs in February 1946.

References

Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 2, page 51-53.

Cite as

Kane MS. 22, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

OCLC

1101933483

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