Harvard University, MS Typ 289

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS11141

Shelfmark:

MS Typ 289

Title:

Athanasii Alexandrini contra gentiles liber primus /; per Ambrosium monachum florentinum e greco in latinum traductus incipit feliciter

Athanasii Alexandrini contra gentiles

Author:

Athanasius, Saint, Patriarch of Alexandria, -373

Athanasius of Alexandria WIKIDATA

Date:

146-

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

vellum

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 105 leaves, bound : vellum ; 24 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Morris, William, 1834-1896

William Morris WIKIDATA

Bennett, Richard, 1844-1900

Richard Bennett WIKIDATA

Note:

The Latin translation is by Ambrogio Traversari.
Written in a humanistic hand in black ink in one column.
Date from the floruit of the anonymous scribe, who also wrote MS Laur. Fiesole 44 and other mss. during this time. See A. de la Mare in A. Garzelli, Miniatura fiorentina del Rinascimento 1440-1525, i. 547.
Bound in contemporary blind-tooled calf, gilt, with 4 clasp catches now lost.
On f. 1r there is a 3/4 white-vine border incorporating a gilt initial and empty roundel. F. 51r has a similar gilt white-vine initial.
In a tray case, 26 cm.
William Morris (bookplate "From the library of William Morris Kelmscott House Hammersmith"; F. S. Ellis's inventory of 1896, no. 8); Richard Bennett (his sale, Sotheby's, London, 5 Dec. 1898, lot 78); E. Stainton, Parham Court, Canterbury (his sale, Sotheby's, London, 26 July 1920).
Deposited by Philip Hofer, 1967; bequeathed, 1984.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Medieval

Italy

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990097490280203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

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Holding Institution:

Harvard University