Harvard University, MS Typ 447

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS11109

Shelfmark:

MS Typ 447

Title:

De agricultura

Author:

Palladius, Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus

Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus Palladius WIKIDATA

Scribe:

Blasio di Girolamo dei Saraceni

Blasio di Girolamo dei Saraceni WIKIDATA

Date:

1460.

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 186 leaves, bound : vellum ; 15 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Heber, Richard, 1773-1833

Richard Heber WIKIDATA

Walker, W. P. Hall

W. P. Hall Walker WIKIDATA

Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962

Sydney Cockerell WIKIDATA

Note:

Written in a small humanistic cursive script in brown ink. Major initial letters are in colors in the left margin. Each month of the year begins with a decorated white-vine initial in colors and gold paint.
F. 13r-v, containing the beginning of the text, is a replacement leaf written by Graily Hewitt in 1917. Six lines on the recto are in burnished gold.
Bound in original brown calf tooled in blind, rebacked, with a remnant of a brass clasp.
Title from colophon which also identifies the scribe as "Blasius Hieronimi de Saracenis filius civis vincentinus" and gives the date 1460.
In a tray case, 17 cm.
Saibante and Canonici sale (Sothebys 26-28 Feb. 1821, lot 386); Richard Heber (his sale, R. H. Evans, part 2 lot 1031); Sir Thomas Phillipps (MS 8246; 8th Phillipps sale 10 June 1896, lot 943); Col. W. P. Hall Walker (his sale, lot B170); Sir Sidney Cockerell (his sale, Sothebys London, 19 May 1957, lot 126).
Purchased with the fund for Printing and Graphic Arts given by Philip Hofer,

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Medieval

religious calendars

calligraphy (visual works)

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990098211470203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:3948920

Holding Institution:

Harvard University