Harvard University, MS Lat 205

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DS ID:

DS10963

Shelfmark:

MS Lat 205

Title:

Comedia Lepidissima

Author:

Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472

Leon Battista Alberti WIKIDATA

Date:

between 1425 and 1450

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

grc

Ancient Greek WIKIDATA

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 94 leaves, bound : vellum, ill. ; 23 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Derschau, Hans Albrect, Freiherr von, -1824

Hans Albrecht von Derschau WIKIDATA

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Barbarigo family

Barbarigo family WIKIDATA

Note:

Title from incipit.
Written in Venice by Milo de Carraria of Padua in a humanistic script.
Illuminated with a decorated initial (f. 1r), which was cut out and replaced by another, probably at the same time that the coat of arms of the Barbarigo family of Venice was added in the lower margin; foliate border (f. 1r) and drawing in ink of the city of Jerusalem and the Red Sea, added (f. 40v).
Added notes (f. 93v) include the Greek alphabet, a Marian prayer in Greek, and points on Greek grammar.
In a 15th-cent. Italian black leather binding over wooden boards, blind-tooled with ivy scrolls and cherubim.
In a tray case, 24 cm.
Belonged to Hans Albrect von Derschau (inscribed: "Bibl. Derschau"); his sale, Nuremberg, Schmider, 1 Aug.-29 Sept. 1825. Belonged to Sir Thomas Phillipps (stamped lion with "Phillipps MS 1288").
Purchased with the Mary P. C. Nash fund, in memory of her husband Bennett Hubbard Nash, 1953.

Keyword:

rules (layout features)

illuminations (paintings)

Drawings

Manuscripts, Medieval

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Jugurthine War (111-105 B.C.)

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990093593890203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:4261864

Holding Institution:

Harvard University