Harvard University, MS Typ 137

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DS ID:

DS10562

Shelfmark:

MS Typ 137

Title:

Lystoria de Alexandro magno figlio di Philippo Re di Macedonia; scripta da Quinto Curcio Ruffo eloquentissimo e traduta in vulgare fidelmente da P. Candido

Author:

Curtius Rufus, Quintus

Quintus Curtius Rufus WIKIDATA

Scribe:

Leone, Laurenziano

Laurenziano Leone WIKIDATA

Date:

ca. 1480

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ita

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 190 leaves, bound : vellum ; 34 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Broadley, John

Zayn al-Din al-Juba'i al'Amili WIKIDATA

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Note:

Title from incipit (f. 9v).
Written in a roman hand in black ink in 1 column, with headings in red in the outer margins.
According to the colophon (f. 190v) the Italian translation was made by P. Candido Decembre in 1475. The scribe gives his name as Laurencianum Leone.
The frontispiece is a full-page miniature. The dedication page (f. 2r) has a historiated initial and foliate border incorporating 4 small miniatures. In the text there are many illuminated initials, apparently intended for historiation but unfinished.
Bound in 17th-century vellum.
In a tray case, 36 cm.
John Broadley (bookplate; his sale, London, R. H. Evans, 12 July 1832, lot 519); Sir Thomas Phillipps (MS 8525).
Deposited by Philip Hofer, 1967; bequeathed, 1984.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Medieval

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990095639200203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:3683967

Holding Institution:

Harvard University