Harvard University, MS Richardson 29

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS10764

Shelfmark:

MS Richardson 29

Title:

De regi[min]e p[r]in[cipum] ad re[gem] Cyp[r]i

Author:

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274

Thomas Aquinas WIKIDATA

Date:

ca. 1425

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 122 leaves, bound : vellum, ill. ; 22 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Santa Maria delle Grazie (Convent : Milan, Italy)

Santa Maria delle Grazie Church WIKIDATA

Note:

Written in a humanistic script in 1 column of 25 lines; 1 historiated initial, illustrating St. Thomas giving the book to the king of Cyprus (Hugh III of Lusignan?); numerous colored initials and headings in red.
Title from incipit.
Bound in mid-18th-cent. russia calf, gilt.
In a tray case, 24 cm.
Bequest of William K. Richardson, 1951.
Belonged to the Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan, ca. 1475-1500 (Inscribed on back flyleaf): Iste liber est conventus Sancte Marie Gratiarum Mediolani in suburbio portae Varallinae, A.D.G. 18"); E.P. Goldschmidt (list 23, no. 2); bought by Richardson in Dec. 1936.

Keyword:

rules (layout features)

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, Medieval

illuminations (paintings)

Kings and rulers--Duties

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990098864650203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:5141185

Holding Institution:

Harvard University