Cuttings from a Latin prose treatise on the Seven Vices (Tractatus de septem vitiis)

Title

Cuttings from a Latin prose treatise on the Seven Vices (Tractatus de septem vitiis)

Creator

Master of the Cocharelli Codex

Source

Genoa

Publisher

Cocharelli family.

Date

c. 1330–40

Contributor

Dr. Adam Rudolphi

Rights

Various Owning institutions including:

London: British Library, Department of Manuscripts
Florence: Museo Nazionale del Bargello

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Format

work on paper

Type

Still Image

Original Format

parchment with illumination

Files

folio 4: Miniature of two men speaking to a third man who holds a rosary, illustrating Envy, surrounded by a geometric border of rhomboids, roundels, and quatrefoils inhabited by human, animal, and hybrid figures.
folio 5: A full-page miniature of the sack of Tripoli, Syria, by the Sultan of Egypt in 1289.
folio 5: A full-page miniature of the sack of Tripoli, Syria, by the Sultan of Egypt in 1289, detail.
folio 6v: Miniature of the execution of the masters of the Templars in France and the death of Philip IV of France.
folio 8: Detail from a miniature with scenes of banking and usury (Avarice): of a man taking money from a chest, pictured inside the Banco di San Giorgio, Genoa.
folio 13: Miniature of a Tatar khan enthroned at a lavish banquet with courtiers, dogs, and musicians, illustrating Gluttony.
folio 13: Miniature of a Tatar khan enthroned at a lavish banquet with courtiers, dogs, and musicians, illustrating Gluttony.
folio 14: Miniature of a scene in a tavern illustrating Gluttony with men drinking, and below a cellarer passing up a drink.
The Fall of Acre

Citation

Master of the Cocharelli Codex, “Cuttings from a Latin prose treatise on the Seven Vices (Tractatus de septem vitiis),” Race, Sexuality, and Gender in Early Modern Italian Art, accessed February 22, 2025, http://othersinearlymodernitaly.artinterp.org/omeka/items/show/141.

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