Harvard University, MS Typ 228

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS10543

Shelfmark:

MS Typ 228

Title:

De civitate dei

De civitate Dei

Author:

Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430

Augustine of Hippo WIKIDATA

Date:

ca. 1300

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

vellum

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 290 leaves, bound : vellum ; 35 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Desportes, Philippe, 1546-1606

Philippe Desportes WIKIDATA

Meerman, Gerard, 1722-1771

Gerard Meerman WIKIDATA

Meerman, Johan, 1753-1815

Johan Meerman WIKIDATA

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Beatty, A. Chester Sir, 1875-1968

Alfred Chester Beatty WIKIDATA

Collège de Clermont (Paris, France)

Lycée Louis-le-Grand WIKIDATA

Note:

Written in a slightly rounded gothic book hand in brownish ink in 2 columns, initials and headlines in blue and red with pen-work decoration.
Perhaps written in Italy (to judge from the style of script) and illuminated in France.
There are 2 historiated initials (ff. 1v, 13r) and 20 other illuminated initials with part-borders and foliate decoration.
Bound in 16th-cent. French brown calf, stamped in gilt on front and back.
In a tray case, 37 cm.
Philippe Desportes, abbot of Tiron (ca. 1600; signature on front flyleaf); Collège de Clermont (inscription on front flyleaf); Gerard Meerman and John Meerman (sale, The Hague, 1824, lot 454); Sir Thomas Phillipps (MS 4600); A. Chester Beatty (Western MS 68; his sale, 1933, lot 51).
Deposited by Philip Hofer, 1967; bequeathed, 1984.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Medieval

Italy

France

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990096098070203941/catalog

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Holding Institution:

Harvard University