Harvard University, MS Richardson 21

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS10769

Shelfmark:

MS Richardson 21

Title:

Notulae super Mattheum et Marcum

Author:

Albertus, Magnus, Saint, 1193?-1280

Albertus Magnus WIKIDATA

Date:

ca. 1430

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 272 leaves, bound : vellum, ill. ; 40 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Peckover, Algerina, 1841-1927

Algerina Peckover WIKIDATA

Peckover, Jonathan, -1883

Jonathan Peckover WIKIDATA

Note:

Written in a compressed gothic script in 2 columns of 54 lines; 5 historiated initials (ff. 3r, 12v, 19v, 23v, 84r) and numerous large decorated initials and foliate borders in the first half; replaced by conventional pen-work initials in the second half.
Titles derived from explicit (f. 198v) and caption (f. 199r).
Written and illuminated in Germany, possibly at the Carthusian Monastery of St. Barbara in Cologne.
Bound in 19th-cent. three-quarter half red goatskin with marble paper over boards; 15th-cent. embroidery of standing male figure (Albertus Magnus?) attached to inside front pastedown.
In a tray case, 42 cm.
Bequest of William K. Richardson, 1951.
Sale in France or Belgium, ca. 1870, lot 4; Jonathan Peckover (bookplate); Algerina Peckover (bookplate); her sale (London, Sotheby's, 12 Dec. 1927, lot 33); to Maggs; bought by Richardson.

Keyword:

rules (layout features)

Manuscripts, Medieval

embroidery (visual works)

Bible. Mark

Bible. Matthew

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990098836480203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:5141179

Holding Institution:

Harvard University