Harvard University, MS Richardson 41

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS10462

Shelfmark:

MS Richardson 41

Title:

De mulieribus claris

Author:

Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375

Giovanni Boccaccio WIKIDATA

Date:

ca. 1425

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 10 leaves, bound : vellum, ill. ; 34 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Silva, Hercules

Hercules Silva WIKIDATA

Note:

Written in an unidentified hand in a textualis rotunda script in 2 columns of 47 lines; 20 pen and ink preliminary drawings for historiated initials, with blank spaces for another 4 initials, never executed.
Written and illuminated in Florence, Italy.
Title derived from heading on f. 1v.
Bound in 20th-cent. vellum over boards.
In a tray case, 35 cm.
Bequest of William K. Richardson, 1951.
Bookstamp of the Count Hercules Silva, Milan; W.H. Schab, Dec. 1940 (cat.?, no. 188); Richardson.

Keyword:

rules (layout features)

Drawings

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, Medieval

Women--Biography

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990098897000203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:7517233

Holding Institution:

Harvard University