Opera (DS16664) (Q69685)
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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from University of Chicago (2654331, Codex Ms. 27, http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2654331)
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| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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| English | Opera (DS16664) |
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from University of Chicago (2654331, Codex Ms. 27, http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2654331) |
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Linlithgow, John Adrian Louis Hope, Marquess of, 1860-1908
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)
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Manuscrits latins médiévaux et modernes
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Illinois--Chicago
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ca. 1460
15. century
1460Gregorian
1460Gregorian
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Extent: 1 volume (131 leaves) ; 22 x 15 cm
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Script: Written in a single highly legible, fine, well-rounded, Italian humanist hand.
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The paper is undoubtedly of mid-15th century Italian origin, and may possibly have originated in Florence about the year 1456; its none-too-common watermark, with crossed daggers, seems identical to that in Briquet, Les filigranes, vol. II, watermark no. 5157).
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Binding: 18th-century English calf over boards, tooled in gold.
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Portions of the codex, particularly the odes and epistles, have been profusely annotated in a second hand; but other parts, such as the Ars poetica and the satires, are unmarked. Bookplate on inside front ocver with a noble coat-of-arms (of the earls of Hopetoun?) and Latin mottoes. Once belonged to John Adrian Louis Hope, 7th earl of Hopetoun and 1st marquis of Linlithgow, who sold it (London...
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14 February 2025
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14 February 2025
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