Vassar College, Leaf 54

Metadata

DS ID:

DS30348

Shelfmark:

Leaf 54

Title:

Leaf from Virgil, Aeneid

Aeneid

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

13--

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 leaf : parchment ; 280 x 204 (207 x 112) mm

Note:

Ms. leaf.
Title from Kidd.
Layout: Written in 39 lines; ruled.
Script: Witten in fine semi-humanistic script.
Origin: Written in Italy during the 14th century.
Salvaged from use as a book cover, perhaps in a French-speaking country: 'XIe' in pencil, overwritten in ink 'Lib XI'; acquired by George Arthur Plimpton, with calling card printed 'Mr. George Arthur Plimpton | Sixty-one Park Avenue' and written in ink 'Virgil Manuscript | XIV Century | To Vassar College | 1911; acquisition announced in College news section of The Vassar miscellany, vol. XL...

Keyword:

Epic poetry

Manuscripts

humanistic scripts

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Italy

Fourteenth century

Manuscripts, Medieval

Institutional Record:

https://vassar.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01VAC_INST/al3g85/alma991019367452407396

Holding Institution:

Vassar College