University of Chicago, Codex Ms. 31

Metadata

DS ID:

DS16668

Shelfmark:

Codex Ms. 31

Title:

De primo bello Punico

De primo bello Punico

Author:

Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444

Leonardo Bruni WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

ca. 1460

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

In Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 volume (113 leaves) : paper ; 22 x 14 cm (4to)

Note:

97 leaves of text, plus 16 blank leaves, or 113 in all.
Binding: original wooden boards and half-leather binding, with rough nails. Fragments of a metal clasp.
Script: Fair copy in a fine, clean, well-rounded, Italian "humanist" minuscule; written in brown ink, in a single unidentified hand.
Layout: Written in long lines. Caption titles at the beginning of each of the three books, written in red ink. Spaces left for decorated initials have not been filled. No index or table of contents.
The inside front cover has the following note, written in ink: "Leonardi arrentini de primo bello punico / Thome de Vincentiis de Fano 1560." Purchased by the University of Chicago from S. Calvary & Co. in 1891.

Keyword:

Punic War (1st) (264-241 B.C.)

264-241 B.C

Early works

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Illinois--Chicago

Institutional Record:

http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2654570

Holding Institution:

University of Chicago