Wellesley College, P108

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS16405

Shelfmark:

P108

Title:

De montibus

De montibus

Author:

Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375

Giovanni Boccaccio WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

between 1400 and 1450

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: i, 132, ii leaves : parchment ; 216 x 140 (140 x 90) mm

Former Owner(s):

Crevenna, Pietro Antonio, 1736-1792

Pietro Antonio Crevenna WIKIDATA

Heber, Richard, 1773-1833

Richard Heber WIKIDATA

Techener, J. 1802-1870

J. Techener WIKIDATA

Barrois, Joseph, approximately 1785-1855

Joseph Barrois WIKIDATA

Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of, 1797-1878

Bertram Ashburnham, 4th Earl of Ashburnham WIKIDATA

Plimpton, George A. 1855-1936

George Arthur Plimpton WIKIDATA

Note:

Collation: Parchment. ii, a-q8, r8−2 (final two folios cancelled), ii. First four folios of most quires signed. Catchwords preserved.
Layout: 1 column, 26 lines. Red writing lines.
Script: Written in a humanistic bookhand in black ink.
Decoration: 1- to 4-line red initials.
Origin: Written in Italy in the first half of the fifteenth century.
Later inscription on fol. 132r [undecipherable] scriptum est amen.
P. A. Bolongaro Crevenna sale (Amsterdam, 1789, IV, p. 9-10, n. 3743). Richard Heber sale (London, 1836, XI, n. 80) to J.-J. Techener. Joseph Barrois collection (n. 224), sold in 1849 to the Earl of Ashburnham; his sale (London, 1901, n. 62) to Quaritch (this from de Ricci; according to Jackson, this manuscript was in the Ashburnham sale of 1883-84). Owned by George A. Plimpton.

Keyword:

Manuscripts

Wellesley College Library

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Massachusetts--Wellesley

Institutional Record:

https://libcat.wellesley.edu/Record/in00000626071

IIIF Manifest:

https://repository.wellesley.edu/node/29196/manifest

Holding Institution:

Wellesley College