Harvard University, MS Lat 270

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DS ID:

DS10840

Shelfmark:

MS Lat 270

Title:

Corduba me genuit

Author:

Lucan, 39-65

Lucan WIKIDATA

Date:

1467 Mar. 26.

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 133 leaves, bound ; 31 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Celotti, Luigi, approximately 1768-approximately 1846

Luigi Celotti WIKIDATA

Drury, Henry, 1778-1841

Henry Drury WIKIDATA

Heber, Richard, 1773-1833

Richard Heber WIKIDATA

Norton, Charles Eliot, 1827-1908

Charles Eliot Norton WIKIDATA

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Note:

Written in northern Italy in a humanistic script with interlinear and marginal annotations, and with colored initials in red.
Two fragments of a Milanese charter, 1405, bound in at front.
Title from incipit.
Bound in early 19th-cent. vellum with red edges.
In a protective tray case, 33 cm.
Belonged to Abate Luigi Celotti; his sale, London, 14 Mar. 1825, no. 194, to Payne and Foss (cat. May 1825, no. 49); sold to Rev. Henry Drury; his sale, London, 1827, no. 286, to Thorpe for Richard Heber; his sale, London, 1836, XI, no. 998, to Thorpe (cat. 1836, no. 806), sold to Sir Thomas Phillipps (MS 9012, not identified in his sale); acquired in 1904 by Charles Eliot Norton.
Purchased with funds from Friends of the Library, 1905.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Medieval

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Battle of Pharsalus (Farsala, Greece : 48 B.C.)

Rome (Empire)

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990094062520203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:22397712

Holding Institution:

Harvard University