Harvard University, MS Typ 226

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS10540

Shelfmark:

MS Typ 226

Title:

Le fatiche de Hercule

Author:

Bassi, Pietro Andrea di

Pietro Andrea di Bassi WIKIDATA

Date:

ca. 1471

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ita

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 38 leaves, bound : vellum ; 37 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan, 1444-1476

Galeazzo Maria Sforza WIKIDATA

Note:

Written in an upright humanistic hand in brown ink in one wide column. Initial letters are red or blue with pen-work decoration. The title of each book is in burnished gold, and the first line in all capitals in red.
Imperfect at the end: the text breaks off in the middle of the 20th labor.
F. 1r has a white-vine border incorporating the arms of Galeazzo Maria Sforza. There are 20 foliate part-borders, each alongside a small miniature. The style is Ferrarese.
The scribe and illuminator are the same as for Houghton MS Typ 227.
Bound in 18th-cent. Austrian cat's-paw brown calf.
In a tray case, 39 cm.
Gift of Philip Hofer in honor of Francis T. P. Plimpton, 1982.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Medieval

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990096091280203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:454917305

Holding Institution:

Harvard University