University of Kansas, MS C68

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1158

Shelfmark:

MS C68

Title:

De vita tirannica /

Author:

Xenophon

Xenophon WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

[between 1401-1434]

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 16 leaves : paper ; 205 x 143 (160 x 95) mm bound to 211 x 150 mm

Former Owner(s):

Wandel, Gudrun, 1882-1976

Gudrun Wandel WIKIDATA

Wandel, Sigurd, 1875-1947

Sigurd Wandel WIKIDATA

Note:

Title devised by cataloger.
Manuscript codex
Collation: ii (modern paper, i is pastedown) + 16 (paper) + ii (modern paper, i is pastedown): 1¹⁶.
Foliation: Modern foliation in pencil in upper right corner (1, 14, 16). Foliation supplied by cataloger.
Watermarks: Single watermark depicting a two-barred cross (the Cross of Lorraine) rising over triple mounds (Briquet BR 11693).
Layout: Written in 26-31 long lines. Unruled.
Script: Written by a single hand in Humanist cursive.
Decoration: A 3-line initial Ç on folio 1r and a 3-line initial C on folio 2r, both in red with brown penwork.
Binding: Modern. Bound in half parchment and multi-colored brocade paper.
Origin: Probably written in Italy in the first third of the fifteenth century.
Former shelfmark: MS Y132
Shelfmark: Lawrence, University of Kansas, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, MS C68
In good condition except for some minor tear and wear on the edges. Minor water damage on fore-edge and lower right corner of leaves. The first and last folios are soiled (folios 1r and 16v). Few contemporary reading signs including brackets and crosses. Opening rubric on folio 1r repeated on upper margin in a contemporary hand, now very faded: "Leonardus Aretinus ad Nicolau[m] suu[m...
Early history of the manuscript is unknown. From the collection of Sigurd and Gudrun Wandel: their bookplate pasted on the front pastedown. Unidentified monogrammatic stamp in red with letters C and I in lower left corner of front pastedown. Possible bookseller marks in pencil on front pastedown: inscribed "Xenophon De Tyrannide (= Hieron) transl. by Leonardo Bruni (early?) 15th cent." in...

Keyword:

Manicules

Watermarks

Brocade bindings

Bookplates

Dictators as authors

Hieron I, Tyrant of Syracuse, -467 B.C. or 466 B.C--Early works to 1800

Manuscripts, Latin

Manuscripts, Medieval

Despotism

Institutional Record:

https://kuprimo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/1n9tuvc/KU_VOYAGER2959547

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archivelab.org/iiif/images_MSC68_30/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

University of Kansas