Bryn Mawr College, MS 9

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS16512

Shelfmark:

MS 9

Title:

De evangelica praeparatione

Praeparatio evangelica

Author:

Eusebius, of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea, approximately 260-approximately 340

Eusebius of Caesarea WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

1440-1460

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

Paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: ii+224+ii; 282 x 208 mm bound to 286 x 214 mm; paper

Former Owner(s):

Goodhart, Howard Lehman, 1884?-1951

Howard Lehman Goodhart WIKIDATA

Taylor, Alice M.

Alice M. Taylor WIKIDATA

Note:

Previously Goodhart 79
Binding: Late nineteenth-century quarter calf on paper boards; stamped on spine in gold: "EVSEBII/ OPERA/ MS. XV CENT"
Layout: Single column, thirty-five to thirty-eight lines, double vertical and single horizontal bounding lines in lead; written area: 119 x 105 mm
Script: Humanistic
Decoration: Fourteen five- to twelve-line gold illuminated initials on blue, red, and green ground outlined in black and white with intertwined white vinestems, the first two create a partial inner border; four three- to four-line gold illuminated initials; finding aids and headings in red
Related resource: Eusebius Caesariensis, De evangelica praeparatione; Lat. trans., Georgius Trapezuntius, (Venice, 1470).
Related resource: Monfasani, John, ed. Collectanea Trapezuntiana: Texts, Documents, and Bibliographies of George of Trebizond; Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, (Binghampton, New York, 1984) pp. 721-726.
Related resource: Bond, W. H. Supplement to the census of medieval and renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York: Bibliographical Society of America, 1962, p. 434, no. 9.
Provenance: Early provenance unknown; late ownership inscription on front pastedown: "Alice M. Taylor" together with library shelf numbers in lead: "AR I 52" and "76 G."; on back parchment endpaper in two fifteenth-century hands: "Quod Aristoteles fuerit nacione judeus libro quarto capite tertio" and "A creacione mundi usque ad annum incarnationis domini fuerunt anni 3793; secundum ebraicam...

Keyword:

Italian (culture or style)

illuminations (paintings)

Fifteenth century

humanistic scripts

Italy

Theology

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0003/html/BMC_MS09.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/3/BMC_MS9/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Bryn Mawr College