Harvard University, MS Typ 425

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DS ID:

DS10827

Shelfmark:

MS Typ 425

Title:

Publii Terentii Afri clarissimi poetae comici liber

Author:

Terence

Terence WIKIDATA

Date:

1463.

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 92 leaves, bound : vellum ; 28 cm.

Note:

"Scriptum Ferrarie Anno MCCCCLXIII indictione undecima die Sabati xvii. mensis Decembr. hora xvi diei" - f. 92r. The writing is an upright humanistic minuscule in one column, in brownish ink with red rubrics, the initial letters of each line separated. (For other mss. by this scribe see De la Mare.) Major initials are in blue and red. Variant readings are written small in the margins.
The title page has a gilt white-vine part-border (incorporating an empty roundel), and there are 7 other illuminated initials in the same style.
Bound in 19th-century mottled sheepskin.
In a tray case, 29 cm.
Gift of Philip Hofer, 1956.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Medieval

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990098061310203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:3948914

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:21552560

Holding Institution:

Harvard University