Harvard University, MS Lat 236

Metadata

DS ID:

DS10841

Shelfmark:

MS Lat 236

Title:

De imitatione Christi et contemptu omnium vanitum mundi

Date:

between 1450 and 1500

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 159 leaves, bound : vellum, paper ; 15 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Byrne, James, 1857-1942

James C. Byrne WIKIDATA

Copinger, Walter Arthur, 1847-1910

Walter Arthur Copinger WIKIDATA

Waldbott-Bassenheim, Hugo, Graf von

Hugo Philipp Waldbott-Bassenheim WIKIDATA

Waterton, Eadmond, 1830-1887

Edmund Waterton WIKIDATA

Reichskartause Buxheim

Buxheim Charterhouse WIKIDATA

Note:

Written, in an unidentified hand, in Germany.
Title from caption, f. 1r.
Bound in quarter morocco and red velvet over wood boards.
In a protective tray case, 17 cm.
Belonged ca. 1700 to the Carthusians at Buxheim; Graf Hugo von Waldbott-Bassenheim; his sale, Munich, 20 Sept. 1883 (possibly no. 2597?); signature (back flyleaf) of Eadmund Waterton; his sale, London, 1895, part of no. 250; bookplate of Walter A. Copinger of Manchester, Eng.
Gift of James Byrne, class of 1877, 1921.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Medieval

Jesus Christ

Christian life

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990094008940203941/catalog

Holding Institution:

Harvard University