Harvard University, MS Typ 143

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DS ID:

DS10569

Shelfmark:

MS Typ 143

Title:

De divinis institutionibus

Author:

Lactantius, approximately 240-approximately 320

Lactantius WIKIDATA

Date:

ca. 1450

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 269 leaves, bound : vellum ; 28 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Beatty, A. Chester Sir, 1875-1968

Alfred Chester Beatty WIKIDATA

Note:

Title from table of chapters, f. 1r.
Written in a humanistic roman hand in brownish ink in one column. Greek passages are supplied by a different, crowded, hand in red.
There are 1 large historiated initial with inhabited foliate border (f. 1v), 10 large foliate initials, and many illuminated initials. A cardinal's arms drawn on f. 1r have been erased.
Bound in limp vellum, gilt, with ties.
In a tray case, 29 cm.
Sir Thomas Phillipps (bought from Payne, 1848; MS 12283); Sir A. Chester Beatty ("W. MSS. 104. III" inside front board; his sale, London, Sotheby's, 9 May 1933, II, lot 57).
Deposited by Philip Hofer, 1967; bequeathed, 1984.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Medieval

rules (layout features)

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990095654450203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:17455221

Holding Institution:

Harvard University