Harvard University, MS Lat 266

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DS ID:

DS10506

Shelfmark:

MS Lat 266

Title:

Omnis ars et omnis doctrina

Author:

Aristotle

Aristotle WIKIDATA

Date:

ca. 1440

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 152 leaves, bound : vellum ; 19 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Bohn, Henry G. 1796-1884

Henry George Bohn WIKIDATA

Hanrott, Philip Augustus

Philip Augustus Hanrott WIKIDATA

Morris, William, 1834-1896

William Morris WIKIDATA

Norton, Charles Eliot, 1827-1908

Charles Eliot Norton WIKIDATA

Perry, Preston A

Preston A. Perry WIKIDATA

Wigan, John Alfred, -1869

John Alfred Wigan WIKIDATA

Note:

Written in a round humanistic script with white-vine decorated initials.
Title from incipit.
Author inscription by Sydney Cockerell on front flyleaf.
Bound in 19th-cent. English olive morocco with embossed coat of arms (per pale: 1, a cross between four roundels; 2, a chevron between three demy vols; Nanfant family?), lettered "Carpe diem " by Charles Lewis.
In a protective tray case, 21 cm.
Belonged to Philip Augustus Hanrott; his sale, London, 1833, I, no. 1418, to H. Bohn; John Alfred Wigan coll.; Henry G. Bohn; his sale, London, 1870, II, no. 8819, to Quaritch; bookplate of William Morris; his sale, London, 1898, no. 71, to Leighton; Preston A. Perry; his sale, New York, 1908, no. 271, purchased by Charles E. Norton (signed and dated on front flyleaf).
Purchased with funds from Friends of the Library, 1908.

Keyword:

rules (layout features)

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, Medieval

Ethics, Ancient

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990094057820203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:4298056

Holding Institution:

Harvard University