Harvard University, MS Lat 355

Metadata

DS ID:

DS11135

Shelfmark:

MS Lat 355

Title:

Naufragii sui ad Bessarionem cardinalem relatio

Author:

Sekoundinos, Nikolaos, 1402-1464

Nikolaos Sagundino WIKIDATA

Date:

1490 Sept. 12.

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 56] p., bound : vellum ; 22 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Heber, Richard, 1773-1833

Richard Heber WIKIDATA

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Note:

Title supplied by previous cataloging.
Written in Venice in a humanistic italic script, and according to the prologue, copied by the author's grandson Nicolaus Aurelius from the autograph manuscript dated 1460. Dated (f. 30v): "Ex venetijs xij kal. septembr. MCCCCLXL."
Scribal dedication to Petrus Blanchus.
Bound in original brown leather over wooden boards.
In a protective tray case, 24 cm.
Belonged to Richard Heber; his sale, 10 Feb. 1838, lot 1371; Sir Thomas Phillipps (MS 8309).
Gift of Howard Phipps, Jr., 1981.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Medieval

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Bēssariōn, Cardinal, 1403-1472

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990094332460203941/catalog

Holding Institution:

Harvard University