Harvard University, MS Typ 227

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS10542

Shelfmark:

MS Typ 227

Title:

La Teseide, with notes by Pietro Andrea di Bassi

Author:

Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375

Giovanni Boccaccio WIKIDATA

Date:

ca. 1471

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ita

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 151 leaves, bound : vellum ; 37 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan, 1444-1476

Galeazzo Maria Sforza WIKIDATA

Note:

The verses are written 4 to a page in an upright humanistic hand in brown ink. Initial letters of verses are in gold, red or blue with pen-work decoration. The wide margins are used on many leaves for the annotations written smaller in the same hand in brown and red.
F. 1r has a foliate border incorporating a historiated initial and the arms of Galeazzo Maria Sforza. There are 21 illuminated initials with foliate part-borders. The style is Ferrarese.
Six leaves are missing after f. 10.
The scribe and illuminator are the same as for MS Typ 226.
Bound in 18th-century Austrian cat's-paw brown calf.
Bequest of Philip Hofer, 1984.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Medieval

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990096092510203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:454918865

Holding Institution:

Harvard University