Skip to main content

Tractato della Humilita (Tract on Humility)

(Italian, 1452–1498)
(Italian, active 1476–1494)
About 1492–94
Place of PublicationFlorence, Italy
Medium/TechniqueIllustrated book with three woodcuts [one in facsimile]
DimensionsOverall: 19 x 12.8 x 1 cm (7 1/2 x 5 1/16 x 3/8 in.)
Credit LineGift of Miss Anna C. Hoyt
Accession number39.605
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsIllustrated books
Description
Florence: Antonio di Bartolommeo Miscomini, about 1492-1494
ProvenanceVictor Masséna, Prince d'Essling (b. 1836 - d. 1910); his sale, Zurich, 15-17 May 1939, no. 256; Miss Anna C. Hoyt (Anna Camilla Hoyt, b. 1897 - d. 1985, from 1959 Anna Hoyt Mavor), Boston, by whom given to MFA, June 8, 1939
Monte delle Oratione (Mountain of Prayer)
Unidentified artist, Italian, 15th century
1496
Epistole evangeli (Epistles and Gospels)
Unidentified artist, Italian, 15th century
1560
Folio Y7recto
Unidentified artist, Italian, 15th century
1498
fol. c6v: "Orpheus Charming the Animals"
Unidentified artist, Italian, 15th century
about 1500
La hypnerotomachia di Polifili
Unidentified artist, Italian, 15th century
1545
Meditationi sopra la Passione
Unidentified artist, Italian, 15th century
about 1495
Unidentified artist, Italian, 15th century
1529
Detail: folio 5v - "Portrait of Sorio"
Unidentified artist, Italian, 16th century
about 1520
Sermoni volgari
Unidentified artist, Italian, 15th century
about 1500