Harvard University, MS Typ 433

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS10811

Shelfmark:

MS Typ 433

Title:

De bello Turcico

Author:

Leo, Bernardino

Bernadino Leon WIKIDATA

Date:

1572?

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 44 leaves, bound : vellum ; 23 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Sneyd, Walter, 1809-1888

Walter Sneyd WIKIDATA

Note:

Written in a professional italic hand in brown ink, each line of verse beginning with a gold initial letter.
Title from title page of the printed edition (Rome 1573). The ms. has the same dedication to Pope Gregory XIII with date 1572 (f. 1v), and on f. 2r the same caption as the printed edition, but no title page.
Bound in 19th-century calf with panels from original gilt red morocco binding set into front and back covers.
In a tray case, 25 cm.
Bookplate of Walter Sneyd.
Purchased with the Price Greenleaf fund, 1904.

Keyword:

calligraphy (visual works)

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Turkey

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990098146300203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:3948916

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:21552562

Holding Institution:

Harvard University