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Lystoria de Alexandro magno figlio di Philippo Re di Macedonia; scripta da Quinto Curcio Ruffo eloquentissimo e traduta in vulgare fidelmente da P. Candido
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Historia Alexandri Magni
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Curtius Rufus, Quintus
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Leone, Laurenziano
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Broadley, John
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Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872
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Manuscripts, Medieval--Italy--1450-1500
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ca. 1480
15. century
1480Gregorian
1480Gregorian
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Extent: 190 leaves, bound : vellum ; 34 cm.
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Title from incipit (f. 9v).
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Written in a roman hand in black ink in 1 column, with headings in red in the outer margins.
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According to the colophon (f. 190v) the Italian translation was made by P. Candido Decembre in 1475. The scribe gives his name as Laurencianum Leone.
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The frontispiece is a full-page miniature. The dedication page (f. 2r) has a historiated initial and foliate border incorporating 4 small miniatures. In the text there are many illuminated initials, apparently intended for historiation but unfinished.
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Bound in 17th-century vellum.
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In a tray case, 36 cm.
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John Broadley (bookplate; his sale, London, R. H. Evans, 12 July 1832, lot 519); Sir Thomas Phillipps (MS 8525).
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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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