Vassar College, Scheetz MS. 24A-C

Metadata

DS ID:

DS29203

Shelfmark:

Scheetz MS. 24A-C

Title:

Two fragments of a register concerning the recruitment and payment of mercenaries, in Latin with some Italian

Register

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

approximately 1368

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Text in Latin with some Italian

Latin WIKIDATA

Italian WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 2 item2 : paper ; 145-205 x 66-214 mm

Note:

Ms. fragment.
Title from Kidd.
Layout: Unruled.
Script: Written in cursive documentary hand by two scribes.
Origin: Written in Florence around 1368.
Text and watermark suggest date in or soon after 1368, watermark also suggesting origin in Tuscany; extracted from binding (date unknown); Sidney Hamer, Leamington Bookshop, Washington, D.C. (before 1965); Frederick R. Goff, inscription in pencil, "French paper cf Briquet 600" (1965); Nicholas B. Scheetz (date unknown)

Keyword:

Inscriptions

documentary scripts

Manuscripts

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Italy

Manuscripts, Medieval

Mercenary troops

Fourteenth century

Italy--Florence

Sources

Institutional Record:

https://vassar.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01VAC_INST/al3g85/alma991019343815507396

Holding Institution:

Vassar College