Harvard University, MS Typ 5

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS10951

Shelfmark:

MS Typ 5

Title:

Cosmographia

Author:

Ptolemy, active 2nd century

Ptolemy WIKIDATA

Date:

ca. 1400-1415

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 232 leaves, bound : vellum ; 28 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Medici, Cosimo de', 1389-1464

Cosimo de' Medici WIKIDATA

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

San Marco (Monastery : Florence, Italy)

Convent San Marco WIKIDATA

Note:

With annotations in the hand of Poggio Bracciolini.
Includes the preface by the Latin translator Jacopo D'Angelo.
Written in a humanistic book hand in brownish ink in one column, initial letters decorated and colored.
18th-century binding in walnut boards, the spine covered with brown morocco, gilt.
In a tray case, 29 cm.
Library of the San Marco monastery in Florence (no. 186); Sir Thomas Phillipps (purchased 1833); Purchased from William H. Robinson with the Hofer fund, 1947.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990095010420203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/ids:53794244

Holding Institution:

Harvard University