Bryn Mawr College, MS 15
Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS16518
- Shelfmark:
- MS 15
- Title:
- Historiae adversus paganos
- Author:
- Orosius, Paulus
- Place:
- Italy
- Date:
- 1450-1474
- Language:
- Latin
- Material:
- Paper
- Physical Description:
- Extent: ix+173+i; 290 x 212 mm bound to 306 x 220 mm; paper
- Former Owner(s):
- Riccio, Camillo, 1838-1899
Laurus, Antonius
Goodhart, Howard Lehman, 1884?-1951
- Note:
- Water-stained throughout
Final folio detached
Fol. 1 missing; text begins incompletely
Binding: Twentieth-century luan plywood boards with worn leather spine
Layout: Single column, written in thirty lines; double vertical and horizontal bounding lines, full length, ruled in hard point; written area: 197 x 120 mm
Script: Humanistic
Decoration: Alternating two- to three-line blue and red ink initials; text divisions and headings in red; marginalia in several contemporary hands and marginal notations throughout in a later hand
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. 435, n. 15.
Related resource: Karl Zangemeister, ed., Historiarum adversum paganos libri vii (Leipzig, 1889)
Provenance: Produced in Italy in the third quarter of the fifteenth century; ownership inscription: "[Clerico?] Camillo Riccio A. V. et S. V. et am. A. et s.s. et u. f. r. et hoc verum est. Hic olim fuit R. Presbiteris V. H. Marcelli Ricci nunc vero mei Camilli Ricci sui nepotis et A. S."; on fol. 174v: "Camilli Ricci Bellicastrensis sum," and repeatedly in a variety of hands: "nec no suorum... - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0003/html/BMC_MS15.html
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/3/BMC_MS15/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
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