Chronicles of the Portuguese kings Duarte and João II (DS11035) (Q47207)

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Chronicles of the Portuguese kings Duarte and João II (DS11035)
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Harvard University (990096134660203941, MS Typ 244, https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990096134660203941/catalog)

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    Chronicles of the Portuguese kings Duarte and João II
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    Manuscripts, Renaissance--Portugal--1500-1550
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    Portugal--History--15th century
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    John II, King of Portugal, 1455-1495
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    Duarte, King of Portugal, 1391-1438
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    Extent: 71 leaves, bound : vellum ; 41 cm.
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    The Portuguese text is written in a gothic rotunda book-hand in 2 columns in brown ink, rubrics and page-headlines in red, with highlighting in blue.
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    Many major initial letters are in black with pen-work decoration or historiation.
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    Bound in 19th-century purple grained morocco by William Townsend & Son of Sheffield.
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    Sir William Bragge (sale, 7 June 1876, lot 151); Sir Francis Cook; Wyndham F. Cook.
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    Bequest of Philip Hofer, 1984.
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    23 July 2024
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    23 July 2024
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