Harvard University, MS Richardson 16

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS10775

Shelfmark:

MS Richardson 16

Title:

In hoc codice continentur Helianus De instruendis aciebus et Onosander De optimo imperatore

Author:

Aelianus, Tacticus, active 2nd century

Aelianus Tacticus WIKIDATA

Scribe:

Hubertus, active 1460-1480

Hubertus WIKIDATA

Date:

ca. 1480

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 85 leaves, bound : vellum, ill. ; 30 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Apponyi, Antal György, gróf, 1751-1817

Antoni Jerzy Apponyi WIKIDATA

Apponyi, Lajos, gróf, 1849-1909

Lajos Graf Apponyi de Nagy-Appony WIKIDATA

Hoe, Robert, 1839-1909

Robert Hoe III WIKIDATA

Matthias I, King of Hungary, 1443-1490

Matthias Corvinus WIKIDATA

Note:

Written in humanistic script in 1 column of 26 lines; 1 small miniature, 1 historiated initial and 1 large frontispiece medallion in color and burnished gold; 1 inhabited white-vine border on f. 2r, 32 diagrams in gold, silver and colored inks, numerous decorated and colored initials in blue and red.
Written and illuminated in Italy (Florence?)
Title from frontispiece medallion.
Bound in original blind-tooled Italian red goatskin.
In a tray case, 33 cm.
Bequest of William K. Richardson, 1951.
Possibly belonged to Matthias Corvinus (based on an otherwise unrecorded royal emblem (f. 2r); Count Anton Apponyi of Vienna and Pressbourg, until 1817; Count Louis Apponyi; his sale (London, Sotheby's, 10 Nov. 1892, lot 9); bought by Quaritch; Robert Hoe; his sale (New York, Anderson, 8-12 Jan. 1912, II, lot 2417); bought by Richardson.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Medieval

Manuscripts, Renaissance

rules (layout features)

illuminations (paintings)

Tactics

Military art and science

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990098802180203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:5141174

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/ids:53794208

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/ids:53794209

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/ids:53794206

Holding Institution:

Harvard University