Harvard University, MS Richardson 28

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS10454

Shelfmark:

MS Richardson 28

Title:

Epistola ad heremitas Sancti Augustini

Author:

Estouteville, Guillaume d', approximately 1412-1483

Guillaume d'Estouteville WIKIDATA

Date:

after 1475

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 17 leaves, bound : vellum, ill. ; 17 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Mensing, Ant. W. M., 1866-1936

Antonius Mensing WIKIDATA

Note:

Written in a humanistic script in 1 column of 33 lines with marginal notations in pale red; title page with large gilt initial and border in white-vine decoration and with arms of Pope Sixtus IV; 1 half-page miniature of the pope enthroned, surrounded by a cardinal and 3 Augustinian monks, with a portrait medallion within a white-vine border (f. 2r); 14 gilt historiated initials representing...
Letter is dated Rome, 1475 (f. 17r).
Title supplied by cataloger.
Bound in late 15th-cent. blind-tooled brown sheep.
In a tray case, 19 cm.
Bequest of William K. Richardson, 1951.
Belonged to A.W.M. Mensing; his sale (London, 15 Dec. 1936, I, lot 177); Richardson.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Medieval

rules (layout features)

Manuscripts, Renaissance

illuminations (paintings)

Augustinians

Sixtus IV, Pope, 1414-1484

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990098862880203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:17663764

Holding Institution:

Harvard University