Cocharelli Codex

The text consists of a tract on the vices and virtues as well as a versified history interspersed with a miscellany of biblical proverbs and moral dictates.

It is the rich program of illustration appearing on every page that has attracted attention and garnered high praise.

[1] The manuscript is incomplete and dismembered: 27 leaves and cuttings are preserved in three institutions: London, The British Library; The Cleveland Museum of Art, and Florence, Museo Nazionale del Bargello.

Surviving archival records indicate that Pellegrino and his family traveled from the County of Provençe to Acre in the second half of the thirteenth century, where he established himself as a prominent financier, sat as a jurist in the Cour des Bourgeois between 1269 and 1274, and joined the Hospital of St John taking on the role of servicing the Order's loans.

Three fragments re-surfaced in the nineteenth century: fifteen cropped leaves and cuttings (Additional 27695 ff.