Harvard University, MS Lat 175

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS11001

Shelfmark:

MS Lat 175

Title:

Vestra novit intentio de scolarium disciplina conpendiosum postulare tractatum

Date:

between 1400 and 1450

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 27 leaves, bound ; 22 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Allen, Samuel

Samuel Allen WIKIDATA

Ricketts, C. L. 1859-1941

Coella Lindsay Ricketts WIKIDATA

Note:

Title from incipit.
Formerly attributed to Boethius.
Probably circulated with MS Lat 174.
Written in northeastern Italy, probably in Venice, in a rounded gothic bookhand, with a lengthy marginal gloss added in a cursive script.
Bound in pasteboard covered with a vellum leaf from an antiphonal, stained dark green.
In a tray case, 24 cm.
Belonged to Samuel Allen; his sale, Sotheby's, London, 30 Jan. 1920, no. 11, to Quaritch. Listed earlier in the catalogs of Payne and Foss, London, May 1825, no. 91, Feb. 1826, no. 532, and 1827, no. 1408, when manuscript included both the Rhetorica ad Herennium and the Disciplina ad scolarium. Belonged to Coella L. Ricketts, Chicago.
Purchased with the Stephen Salisbury fund, 1942.

Keyword:

rules (layout features)

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, Medieval

Education--Philosophy

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990093482350203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:18189362

Holding Institution:

Harvard University