Harvard University, MS Lat 274

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DS ID:

DS10837

Shelfmark:

MS Lat 274

Title:

Collectaneorum liber de mirabilibus mundi

Author:

Solinus, C. Julius, active 3rd century

Gaius Julius Solinus WIKIDATA

Date:

1455 Sept. 14.

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 183 leaves, bound : vellum ; 18 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Dunn, George, 1864-1912

George Dunn WIKIDATA

Horblit, Harrison D.

Harrison Horblit WIKIDATA

Libri, Guillaume, 1803-1869

Guglielmo Libri Carucci dalla Sommaja WIKIDATA

Merton, Wilfred

Wilfred Merton WIKIDATA

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Note:

Transcription written in a humanistic script by Gerardus De Campis (signed and dated, f. 183v).
Title from rubric, f. 1r.
Bound in early 19th-cent. diced brown russia.
In a protective tray case, 20 cm.
Belonged to Guglielmo Libri; his sale, Sotheby's, 28 Mar. 1859, lot 948; Sir Thomas Phillipps (MS 16408 and also 18237); George Dunn; his sale, Sotheby's, 11 Feb. 1913, lot 655; Wilfrid Merton (MS 26).
Gift of Harrison D. Horblit, class of 1933, in memory of Mark M. Horblit, II, 1959.

Keyword:

rules (layout features)

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Geography, Ancient

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990094072570203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:22018962

Holding Institution:

Harvard University