Harry Ransom Center, MS 3327, Container 33

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS3868

Shelfmark:

MS 3327, Container 33

Title:

Vita et gesti Alexandri Magni

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

13th century

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

eng

English WIKIDATA

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 47 leaves : parchment, 25 x 17 cm

Former Owner(s):

Barker, Elizabeth

Elizabeth Barker WIKIDATA

Blomefield, Francis

Francis Blomefield WIKIDATA

Martin, Thomas

Thomas Martin WIKIDATA

Farmer, Richard

Richard Farmer WIKIDATA

Heber, Richard, Sir

Richard Heber WIKIDATA

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Note:

Title from caption?
Decorated with red and blue initials.
Gothic textualis script
Layout is 35 long lines.
Original manuscript (fol. 1v, 4r-5v, 8r-11v, 14r-41v) supplemented by Francis Blomefield, Rector of Fersfield, who transcribed the missing sections from a manuscript at Corpus Christi College (here called Bennet College), Cambridge in 1736, in an effort to perfect the manuscript.

Keyword:

Biographies

decorated initials

Kings and rulers

Institutional Record:

https://search.lib.utexas.edu/permalink/01UTAU_INST/be14ds/alma991058301968106011

IIIF Manifest:

https://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/notDM/objectManifest/p15878coll111v3/179

Holding Institution:

Harry Ransom Center