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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9980

Shelfmark:

mssHM 47405

Title:

De vita et moribus philosophorum

De vita et moribus philosophorum

Author:

Burlaeus, Gualterus, 1275-1345

Walter Burley WIKIDATA

Artist:

Fastolf Master, active 1420-1460

Fastolf Master WIKIDATA

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

between 1440 and 1460

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 104 : parchment ; 140 x 198 mm

Note:

Gualterus Burlaeus' (i.e. Walter of Burley's) De vita et moribus philosophorum written in the middle of the fifteenth century in England, or perhaps in France where it may have received its historiated initial and marginal spray.
Span folios: ff. 1-104v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 1-138. Catchwords in lower right corner. 27 long lines ruled in red ink with the top 2 lines and the bottom line full across; single vertical bounding lines; pricking occasionally visible in the 3 outer margins. Written in a bâtarde hand.
Decoration: Opening historiated initial, 9-line, in white-highlighted pink on a gold ground with thin blue, rust and green acanthus leaves and spiky sprays in Continental style along the inner margin; in the center of the initial, a philosopher lecturing to his students, by the Master of Sir John Fastolf. 2-line blue initials with red flourishing; alternating blue and rose-colored paragraph...
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 8/23/2012.
In England from an early date, as shown by the distinctly English decoration of the 2-line blue initials, and by the finding notes in the margins in an English hand. The only other copies of English provenance noted by Stigall are Cambridge, Trinity College O.2.50 (1154), Philadelphia (Pennsylvania), Temple University, Ms. 567 and Vatican, Reg. lat. 7147. On f. ii, "Hic liber est meus/ Testis...

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

historiated initials

Fifteenth century

Philosophers, Ancient

Philosophy, Ancient

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862212

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Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens