Harvard University, MS Typ 9

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS10638

Shelfmark:

MS Typ 9

Title:

Epistolarum Domini Leonardi liber primus incipit

Author:

Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444

Leonardo Bruni WIKIDATA

Artist:

Torelli, Filippo

Matteo di Filippo Torelli WIKIDATA

Date:

ca. 1440

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: III, 100, II leaves, bound : vellum ; 35 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Note:

Written in a round humanistic minuscule in brown ink by an unknown scribe. The first page has an illuminated border, and the initial letters of the books are also illuminated in the white-vine style. The artist was perhaps Filippo Torelli.
18th-century French binding in brown morocco, gilt.
"Vespasianus librarius Florentinus vendidit" - f. 100r.
In a tray case,36 cm.
Possibly bought by Cardinal Jean Jonffroy, Bishop of Arras and later of Albi (1461); Chardin (his sale, Paris 1825, lot 2128); Sir Thomas Phillipps (MS 862). Purchased with the Hofer fund from William H. Robinson, 1947.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990095017140203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:8189052

Holding Institution:

Harvard University