Harvard University, MS Typ 17

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS10921

Shelfmark:

MS Typ 17

Title:

De vita et gestis Scipionis p'mi Affricani

Author:

Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374

Petrarch WIKIDATA

Date:

1461.

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 153 leaves, bound ; 23 cm.

Note:

Written in Chios, Greece on 13 June 1461 by Giovanni Antonio de Colli (colophon f. 152v), in a humanistic script. Initial letters are decorated in red and blue, and the initial letters of each line are separated into the margin.
Original binding in elaborately blind-tooled brown morocco over wooden boards, rebacked.
In a tray case, 25 cm.
Bought 20 Nov. 1474 at Kaffa, Russia, by Antonius de Bozello from Michaelus Niger, witnessed by Johannes and Leonardus (f. 152v); acquired 20 May 1666 by Antonius Maria Bottus (f. 1r). Purchased in 1941 with the John Harvey Treat fund.

Keyword:

Blind tooled bindings

rules (layout features)

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990095116390203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:8363427

Holding Institution:

Harvard University