Harvard University, MS Typ 422

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS11197

Shelfmark:

MS Typ 422

Title:

Deiphira

Author:

Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472

Leon Battista Alberti WIKIDATA

Date:

not after 1472

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ita

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 36 leaves, bound : vellum ; 16 cm.

Note:

Written in a humanist script in orange ink, 15 lines per page; written area 85 x 62 mm. There are occasional alterations to the text, written above the line in darker red ink in a different hand, probably Alberti's.
Ms H in the critical edition by C. Grayson (Bari 1974).
Decoration: The opening words of the prologue "Legete me amanti recognoscendo qui mecho i vostri" on f. 1 are in orange and purple letters on black, within a gold frame. Below this is illustrated a scene in which two men and a woman converse, in front of a castle in the background. There is a border of vines and flowers around the top and sides, the right edge of which was trimmed off when the...
Binding: modern full black morocco, with vellum doublures.
In a quarter green morocco and cloth tray case, 17 cm.
Bookplate of Philip Hofer.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Medieval

rules (layout features)

Love

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990090067380203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:8311570

Holding Institution:

Harvard University