Comedia Lepidissima (DS10963) (Q46991)

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Comedia Lepidissima (DS10963)
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Harvard University (990093593890203941, MS Lat 205, https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990093593890203941/catalog)

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    Comedia Lepidissima
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    Drawings--Italy--15th century
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    Manuscripts, Medieval--Italy--1400-1450
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    Manuscripts, Renaissance--Italy--1400-1450
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    Jugurthine War, 111 B.C.-105 B.C.
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    between 1425 and 1450
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    Extent: 94 leaves, bound : vellum, ill. ; 23 cm.
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    Title from incipit.
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    Written in Venice by Milo de Carraria of Padua in a humanistic script.
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    Illuminated with a decorated initial (f. 1r), which was cut out and replaced by another, probably at the same time that the coat of arms of the Barbarigo family of Venice was added in the lower margin; foliate border (f. 1r) and drawing in ink of the city of Jerusalem and the Red Sea, added (f. 40v).
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    Added notes (f. 93v) include the Greek alphabet, a Marian prayer in Greek, and points on Greek grammar.
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    In a 15th-cent. Italian black leather binding over wooden boards, blind-tooled with ivy scrolls and cherubim.
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    In a tray case, 24 cm.
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    Belonged to Hans Albrect von Derschau (inscribed: "Bibl. Derschau"); his sale, Nuremberg, Schmider, 1 Aug.-29 Sept. 1825. Belonged to Sir Thomas Phillipps (stamped lion with "Phillipps MS 1288").
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    Purchased with the Mary P. C. Nash fund, in memory of her husband Bennett Hubbard Nash, 1953.
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    23 July 2024
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    23 July 2024
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