Harvard University, MS Typ 2

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS10949

Shelfmark:

MS Typ 2

Title:

Suetonii Tranquillini de vita et moribus duodecim principum Romanorum libri duodecim

Author:

Suetonius, approximately 69-approximately 122

Suetonius WIKIDATA

Date:

ca. 1450

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 158 leaves, bound : vellum ; 29 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Askew, Anthony, 1722-1774

Anthony Askew WIKIDATA

Wodhull, Michael, 1740-1816

Michael Wodhull WIKIDATA

Adams, J. C.

John Couch Adams WIKIDATA

Note:

Written in Italy in a humanistic book hand. There are marginalia in later hands.
There are 12 large gilt white-vine initials. An armorial drawing on f. 1r is a later addition.
18th-century binding in russia, gilt, probably English, for Dr. Anthony Askew.
Dr. Anthony Askew (his manuscript sale, 1785); Michael Wodhull (sale 1886); J. C. Adams (his sale, 1931); bought by Philip Hofer and presented in 1942.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Medieval

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990095000370203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:3690473

Holding Institution:

Harvard University