Harvard University, MS Richardson 12

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DS ID:

DS10788

Shelfmark:

MS Richardson 12

Title:

De celesti hierarchia; and other texts

Author:

Pseudo-Dionysius, the Areopagite

Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite WIKIDATA

Date:

1436.

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 123 leaves, bound : vellum ; 29 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Dunn, George, 1864-1912

George Dunn WIKIDATA

Note:

Written in humanistic script by Ambrosius Camaldolensis in 1436 (explicit, f. 107v) with marginal annotations; 1 large frontispiece medallion with title in gilt and colors, 1 border and 5 initials in white-vine and gilt decoration, headings in pale rose.
Title from incipit.
Bound in late 19th-cent. blind-tooled citron morocco, gilt, by Leighton.
In a tray case, 32 cm.
Bequest of William K. Richardson, 1951.
Belonged to "CAR" in Venice, about 1540; George Dunn, Aug. 1907; his sale (London, 2 Feb. 1914, II, n. 1015); to Leighton; his sale (London, 14 Nov. 1918, I, n. 261); to Maggs; Maggs, cat. 374 (1918), n. 183, cat. 380 (1919), n. 1666, cat. 395 (1920), n. 32, cat. 404 (1921), n. 46; to Richardson.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Medieval

Manuscripts, Renaissance

God--Knowableness

God--Name

Mysticism

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990098790180203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:5141171

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/ids:53794204

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/ids:53794210

Holding Institution:

Harvard University