Harvard University, MS Lat 170

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS11010

Shelfmark:

MS Lat 170

Title:

Leonardi de bello italico adversus gothos gesto

Author:

Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444

Leonardo Bruni WIKIDATA

Date:

between 1450 and 1475

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 57 leaves, bound : vellum, ill. ; 24 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Norton, Charles Eliot, 1827-1908

Charles Eliot Norton WIKIDATA

Roscoe, William, 1753-1831

William Roscoe WIKIDATA

Note:

Written in northern Italy in a gothic bookhand, with frontispiece border, unidentified coat of arms (partly effaced) at bottom flanked by two naked youths, and decorated initials at book divisions.
In an early 19th-cent. English russia binding with gold and blind tooling.
In a tray case, 26 cm.
Unidentified arms of the original owner (f. 1r); belonged to William Roscoe; his sale, Winstanley, Liverpool, 19 Aug. 1816, no. 1789, to Ford; Charles Eliot Norton.
Purchased with funds from the Friends of the Library, 1905.

Keyword:

rules (layout features)

Manuscripts, Renaissance

illuminations (paintings)

Italy

Goths

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990093465790203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:4261854

Holding Institution:

Harvard University