Bryn Mawr College, MS 53

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS16553

Shelfmark:

MS 53

Title:

Libro de optimo imperatore

Libro de optimo imperatore

Author:

Onasander

Onasander WIKIDATA

Place:

Venice?, Northeastern Italy

Date:

1460-1480

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

Paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: i+30+i; 191 x 137 mm bound to 198 x 147 mm; paper

Former Owner(s):

Sneyd, Walter, 1809-1888

Walter Sneyd WIKIDATA

Canonici, Matteo Luigi, 1727-1805

Matteo Luigi Canonici WIKIDATA

Winter, George

George Winter WIKIDATA

Note:

Binding: Nineteenth- or early twentieth-century half leather and marbled paper binding, spine with gilt title: "ONOSANDER LATINE M.S. SAEC. XV"
Layout: Single column of thirty-one lines; Horizontal rules in brown ink; full-length single vertical bounding lines ruled in lead or brown crayon; single large pricking in the outer margin; written area: 149 x 105 mm
Script: Humanistic Cursive
Decoration: Two blank spaces for four-line initials; guide letters for initials throughout
Provenance: Reverend Walter Sneyd of Keele Hall Staffordshire (1809-1888), who acquired the surplus of Matteo Luigi Canonici's library in 1835. His round heraldic bookplate pasted inside front cover: "Guelteri Sneyd ex-libris." Sold at Sotheby's 16 December 1903, lot. 565. Belonged to Wigan Free Library, their oval stamp in blind on fols. 1 and 28; and their large printed bookplate front...

Keyword:

Italian (culture or style)

Fifteenth century

humanistic scripts

Italy

treatises

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0003/html/BMC_MS53.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/3/BMC_MS53/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Bryn Mawr College