Harvard University, MS Richardson 20

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS10767

Shelfmark:

MS Richardson 20

Title:

Artis Prisciani viri eloquentissimi grammatici Cesariensis

Author:

Priscian, active approximately 500-530

Priscian WIKIDATA

Date:

ca. 1150

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 212 leaves, bound : vellum ; 23 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Allen, Henry Ellis

Henry Ellis Allen WIKIDATA

Allen, Samuel

Samuel Allen WIKIDATA

Note:

Written in a minuscule script with interlinear and marginal glosses with numerous Greek quotations; 17 large initials of interlace ornamental decoration in color, headings in red.
The last two folios of text supplied in a 15th-cent. hand.
Written in Italy.
Title from heading.
Bound in 15th-cent. Italian blind-tooled brown goatskin; rebacked.
In a tray case, 25 cm.
Bequest of William K. Richardson, 1951.
Erased early ownership inscription on the back flyleaf; stated without evident grounds to have belonged to Lorenzo de' Medici; Quaritch (cat., 1868, n. 60); Henry Alan (bookplate); Samuel Allen; his sale (London, 1920, n. 92); to Maggs; J. Martini (cat. 17, 1921, n. 18, and cat. 18, 1922, n. 15); to Richardson.

Keyword:

rules (layout features)

Manuscripts, Medieval

Latin language--Grammar

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990098838020203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:5141178

Holding Institution:

Harvard University