(Q46427)
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23 July 2024
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In hoc codice continentur Helianus De instruendis aciebus et Onosander De optimo imperatore
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Aelianus, Tacticus, active 2nd century
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Hubertus, active 1460-1480
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Apponyi, Antal György, gróf, 1751-1817
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Apponyi, Lajos, gróf, 1849-1909
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Hoe, Robert, 1839-1909
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Matthias I, King of Hungary, 1443-1490
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Manuscripts, Medieval--Italy--1450-1500
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Manuscripts, Renaissance--Italy--1450-1500
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Military art and science--Early works to 1800
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ca. 1480
15. century
1480Gregorian
1480Gregorian
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Extent: 85 leaves, bound : vellum, ill. ; 30 cm.
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Written in humanistic script in 1 column of 26 lines; 1 small miniature, 1 historiated initial and 1 large frontispiece medallion in color and burnished gold; 1 inhabited white-vine border on f. 2r, 32 diagrams in gold, silver and colored inks, numerous decorated and colored initials in blue and red.
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Written and illuminated in Italy (Florence?)
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Title from frontispiece medallion.
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Bound in original blind-tooled Italian red goatskin.
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In a tray case, 33 cm.
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Bequest of William K. Richardson, 1951.
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Possibly belonged to Matthias Corvinus (based on an otherwise unrecorded royal emblem (f. 2r); Count Anton Apponyi of Vienna and Pressbourg, until 1817; Count Louis Apponyi; his sale (London, Sotheby's, 10 Nov. 1892, lot 9); bought by Quaritch; Robert Hoe; his sale (New York, Anderson, 8-12 Jan. 1912, II, lot 2417); bought by Richardson.
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25 July 2024
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