Harvard University, MS Lat 206

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DS ID:

DS10956

Shelfmark:

MS Lat 206

Title:

De seculo et religione; editus a Colutio pyeri de Stignano cancellario florentino ad Fratrem Ieronimum de Uzano ordinis Camaldilensis in monasterio Sancte Marie de Angelis de Florentia

Author:

Salutati, Coluccio, 1331-1406

Coluccio Salutati WIKIDATA

Date:

between 1400 and 1425

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 76 leaves, bound : vellum, ill. ; 28 cm.

Former Owner(s):

De Vegh, Imre, 1906-1962

Imre De Vegh WIKIDATA

Colonna family

House of Colonna WIKIDATA

Fenn, R. H

R. H. Fenn WIKIDATA

Note:

Title from incipit.
Written in Italy, probably in the northeast, in a stylized round gothic bookhand, and decorated with one miniature illustrating a kneeling patron before the Virgin and Child (f. 3r), one historiated initial (f. 3r), painted coat of arms (with a papal tiara) of the Colonna family, flanked by two unidentified coats of arms (f. 3r), and three decorated initials.
In a 15th-cent. (?) Italian quarter sheepskin binding with wooden boards.
In a tray case, 30 cm.
Ex-libris of "R. H. Fenn, Valambrosa, Italy 1944." Purchased from Martin Breslauer, London (cat. 71, 1950, no. 79), by Imre de Vegh of New York.
Gift of Imre de Vegh, 1953.

Keyword:

rules (layout features)

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, Medieval

illuminations (paintings)

Monastic and religious life

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990093598250203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:10958535

Holding Institution:

Harvard University