Harvard University, MS Lat 459
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- DS ID:
- DS10394
- Shelfmark:
- MS Lat 459
- Title:
- De miseria humanae conditionis
- Author:
- Innocent III, Pope, 1160 or 1161-1216
- Date:
- circa 1450-1475.
- Language:
- In Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 87 leaves, bound (.08 linear feet) vellum ; 15 cm
- Former Owner(s):
- Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872
Chardin, Charles (Bookseller)
Saint-Mihiel (Benedictine abbey)
- Note:
- Written in Northern France in brown ink in a Gothic semihybrida script in 22 long lines; ruled in faded red ink with faded rubrication. Guide notes for rubrication visible in margins. Two- to four-line spaces left for initials (lacks initials). Final four leaves ruled but otherwise empty. Front and back flyleaves have pulled from boards; front flyleaf a fragment of a French diploma, dated...
Bound in leather over wooden boards with alum tawed thong attachment.
See curatorial file for more information.
Purchased with Henry Saltonstall Howe Fund, 2018.
Formerly belonged possibly to Saint-Mihiel in Meuse (inscription f. 1); to Charles Chardin (his library number on spine and front flyleaf); and to Sir Thomas Phillipps (inkstamp and inscription on front flyleaf). - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990151137490203941/catalog
- Holding Institution:
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