Harvard University, MS Lat 46

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DS ID:

DS11098

Shelfmark:

MS Lat 46

Title:

Carmina

Author:

Tibullus

Tibullus WIKIDATA

Artist:

Antonio, di Niccolò di Lorenzo

Antonio di Niccolò di Lorenzo di Domenico WIKIDATA

Date:

ca. 1460

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 48 leaves, bound : vellum, ill. ; 20 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Drury, Henry, 1778-1841

Henry Drury WIKIDATA

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Note:

Written in Florence in a humanistic cursive script, with a white vinestem initial and coat of arms (Capponi family?) within frontispiece border, possibly illuminated by Antonio di Niccolò di Lorenzo.
In a 15th-cent. blind-tooled leather binding. in a protective tray case, 21.5 cm.
In a protective tray case, 22 cm.
Belonged possibly to the Capponi family of Florence; purchased by the Reverend Henry Drury in 1821; his sale, London, Evans, to Thorpe for Sir Thomas Phillipps (MS 3385); his sale, London, Sotheby's, 10 June 1896, no. 1247, to Quaritch.
Purchased with the Charles Minot Bequest, 1897.

Keyword:

rules (layout features)

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Elegiac poetry, Latin

Epistolary poetry, Latin

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990093215620203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:4145779

Holding Institution:

Harvard University