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| Title |
Altar-card (tabella secretarum) executed for a nunnery. |
| Origin |
Italy |
| Date |
16th century |
| Language |
Latin |
| Script |
Humanistic |
| Decoration |
1 miniature in colours and gold, of a nimbed bishop in the act of vesting a nimbed abbess. |
| Dimensions in mm |
235 x 330 |
| Official foliation |
Parchment altar-card foliated as '128'. |
| Form |
Parchment altar-card affixed to a paper leaf in an album of miscellaneous letters and papers. |
| Binding |
BM/BL in house. |
| Provenance |
A female convent in Northern Italy: suggested by the subject of the miniature.
Transferred from the Department of British and Medieval Antiquities of the British Museum to the Department of Manuscripts in 1929. |
| Notes |
Italian cutting.
The present altar-card is kept with miscellaneous letters and papers as Add. 41996. To see this altar-card in the Manuscripts Reading Room order Add. 49196. |
| Select bibliography |
British Museum Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts 1926-1930 (London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1959), 159-63 (p. 163).
Iter Liturgicum Italicum, ed. by Giacomo Baroffio (Padua: CLEUP, 1999), p. 105. |
