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Metadata

DS ID:

DS11123

Shelfmark:

MS Lat 34

Title:

Historia de preliis Alexandri Magni

Historia de preliis

Author:

Leo, Archipresbyter, active 10th century

Leo Archpriest WIKIDATA

Date:

ca. 1275-ca. 1350

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

vellum, ill.

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 12 leaves, bound : vellum, ill. ; 30 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Hodgkin, John Eliot

John Eliot Hodgkin WIKIDATA

Libri, Guillaume, 1803-1869

Guglielmo Libri Carucci dalla Sommaja WIKIDATA

Note:

Recension J³.
Written in Italy, probably in Bologna, in a southern gothic bookhand. First folio contains one historiated initial of Alexander the Great enthroned and an illuminated acanthus border; colored initials with pen flourishes at secondary divisions.
In a 15th-cent. (?) Italian binding of wooden boards with later leather spine.
In protective tray case, 32 cm.
Formerly owned by Guglielmo Libri; his sale, London, Sotheby's, 28 Mar. 1859, no. 35 to Morton; John Eliot Hodgkin (d. 1912, bookplate); his sale, London, Sotheby's 12 May 1914, no. 27 to F. S. Ellis, bookseller.
Purchased with the Charles Minot Fund, 1914.

Keyword:

rules (layout features)

Manuscripts, Medieval

Italy

illuminations (paintings)

Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C.

Romances

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990093162450203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:4145772

Holding Institution:

Harvard University