Harvard University, MS Typ 496

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS11081

Shelfmark:

MS Typ 496

Title:

De Romanorum magistratibus

Author:

Fenestella, L. -1452

Lucius Fenestella WIKIDATA

Date:

1465 Nov. 5.

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 32 leaves, bound : vellum ; 31 cm.

Note:

Written in a slightly inclined humanistic hand with long ascenders and descenders in black ink in one column, 33 lines per page. Initial letters of paragraphs are in blue in the left margin.
F. 1r has a white-vine border with illuminated initial letter and miniature of a Dominican presenting a book to a young prince. F. 32 has a miniature portrait identifiable as Scanderbeg, with the unidentified initials EV on each side of the head within the roundel.
Date from the margin of f. 32 after the word "finis".
Bound in 19th-century green velvet.
In a tray case, 32 cm.
"A lady" (Sotheby's sale, London, 11 Dec. 1961, lot 170, to Davis & Orioli).
Gift of Curt H. Reisinger, 1962.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Medieval

Magistrates, Roman

Public law (Roman law)

Scanderbeg, 1405?-1468

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990098444970203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:3983608

Holding Institution:

Harvard University