(Q47525)
Statements
Athanasii Alexandrini contra gentiles liber primus /; per Ambrosium monachum florentinum e greco in latinum traductus incipit feliciter
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Athanasius, Saint, Patriarch of Alexandria, -373
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Morris, William, 1834-1896
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Bennett, Richard, 1844-1900
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Manuscripts, Medieval--Italy--1450-1500
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146-
15. century
1460Gregorian
1460Gregorian
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Extent: 105 leaves, bound : vellum ; 24 cm.
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The Latin translation is by Ambrogio Traversari.
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Written in a humanistic hand in black ink in one column.
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Date from the floruit of the anonymous scribe, who also wrote MS Laur. Fiesole 44 and other mss. during this time. See A. de la Mare in A. Garzelli, Miniatura fiorentina del Rinascimento 1440-1525, i. 547.
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Bound in contemporary blind-tooled calf, gilt, with 4 clasp catches now lost.
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On f. 1r there is a 3/4 white-vine border incorporating a gilt initial and empty roundel. F. 51r has a similar gilt white-vine initial.
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In a tray case, 26 cm.
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William Morris (bookplate "From the library of William Morris Kelmscott House Hammersmith"; F. S. Ellis's inventory of 1896, no. 8); Richard Bennett (his sale, Sotheby's, London, 5 Dec. 1898, lot 78); E. Stainton, Parham Court, Canterbury (his sale, Sotheby's, London, 26 July 1920).
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Deposited by Philip Hofer, 1967; bequeathed, 1984.
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23 July 2024
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23 July 2024
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