Harvard University, MS Typ 176

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DS ID:

DS10589

Shelfmark:

MS Typ 176

Title:

Caii Claudiani nobilissimi poetae Florentini de Laudibus Stiliconis liber primus

Author:

Claudianus, Claudius

Claudian WIKIDATA

Date:

ca. 1475

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 183 leaves, bound : vellum ; 26 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Amici, Bartolomeo, active 1735

Bartolomeo Amici WIKIDATA

Higgins, Alfred

Alfred Higgins WIKIDATA

Gribbel, John, 1858-1936

John Gribbel WIKIDATA

Note:

Title from caption of the first poem (f. 1r).
Written in a humanistic roman hand in brownish ink in one column, the intial letters of each line separated into the margin.
There are 1 gilt white-vine border (incorporating a coat of arms partly effaced, f. 1r), 10 white-vine gilt initials and 14 illuminated initials.
Bound in original blind-tooled brown morocco over oak boards.
In a tray case, 28 cm.
Bartolomeo Amici (signature and date 1735 inside front board); Alfred Higgins (bookplate; his sale, London, 1904); John Gribbel (bookplate).
Deposited by Philip Hofer, 1967; bequeathed, 1984.

Keyword:

Italy

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990095873570203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:3710780

Holding Institution:

Harvard University