Among the most refined Italian music manuscripts, the Squarcialupi Codex was copied in Florence in the early fifteenth century. It contains over 300 compositions, nearly half of which are unique to this codex, created by the most esteemed composers of the fourteenth century.
Illuminated Florentine Music
The manuscript is richly illuminated with gold and precious colors, placing it among the most magnificent works in the history of Italian illumination. Recent iconographic research confirms that the miniatures and splendid illuminations had their origins in the Florentine scriptorium of Santa Maria degli Angeli between 1410 and 1415.
The codex was once a possession of the celebrated Florentine organist Antonio Squarcialupi (1417-1480), as stated by the inscription on the first sheet: "This book belongs to Antonio di Bartolomeo Squarcialupi, organist in Santa Maria del Fiore".
Later it was owned by Giuliano de' Medici and subsequently passed to the Palatine Library; at the end of the eighteenth century, it was transferred together with other volumes to the Laurentian Library where it has been kept to this day, marked Palatino 87, and still preserves its same elegant binding.
Binding description
Brown leather binding on wooden boards, dating from the end of the fifteenth century.
We have 1 facsimile edition of the manuscript "Squarcialupi Codex": Codice Squarcialupi facsimile edition, published by Giunti Editore, 1992
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