Harvard University, MS Lat 49

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS10476

Shelfmark:

MS Lat 49

Title:

Magni oratoris Guarini Veronensis in Plutarchum de liberis educandis

Date:

between 1425 and 1450

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 26 leaves, bound : vellum, paper ; 19 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Bowie, Richard Ashhurst, 1836-1887

Richard Ashurst Bowie WIKIDATA

Note:

Translated by Guarinus Veronensis, and falsely ascribed to Plutarch.
Written in northeastern Italy in a humanistic script and a cursive bookhand, with one decorated initial.
In an early 20th-cent. blue half morocco library binding.
In a protective tray case, 20 cm.
Formerly owned by Richard Ashhurst Bowie of Philadelphia; Bowie library given to Mary Bryant Brandegee.
Gift of Mrs. Mary Bryant Brandegee, in memory of her grandfather William Fletcher Weld, 1908.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, Medieval

Education, Ancient

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990093224660203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:47288816

Holding Institution:

Harvard University