Harvard University, MS Richardson 38

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS10459

Shelfmark:

MS Richardson 38

Title:

Eclogues, Georgics and the Aeneid

Author:

Virgil

Virgil WIKIDATA

Date:

ca. 1460-1470, ca. 1500

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

In French

French WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 324 leaves, bound : vellum, ill. ; 29 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Mac-Carthy-Reagh, Justin, comte de, 1744-1811

Justin MacCarthy Reagh WIKIDATA

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Note:

Written in bâtarde script in 1 column of 21 lines; 18 miniatures, numerous foliate borders and decorated initials. Written and illuminated in the Loire Valley, France.
Illumination related to the styles of the Coëtivy Master (Henri de Vulcop?) and the Master of Jouvenal des Ursins.
Five illustrations for the Georgics were painted later, about 1500.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Bound in 18th-cent. red goatskin, gilt, with black doublures and endleaves by Tessier (label).
In a tray case, 32 cm.
Bequest of William K. Richardson, 1951.
Belonged to Count MacCarthy-Reagh (inscribed, MS 2540); Sir Thomas Phillipps (inscribed, MS 2164); Richardson.

Keyword:

rules (layout features)

Manuscripts, Medieval

Agriculture

Aeneas (Legendary character)

Country life

Legends

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990098888400203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:5141192

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/ids:53794196

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/ids:53794205

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/ids:53794207

Holding Institution:

Harvard University