Accession number
MS M.1103
Object title
De excidio Troiae historia (MS M.1103).
Display Date
1460-1470.
Created
Northern Italy, 1460-1470.
Binding
15th-century Italian blind filleted goatskin, remains of 4 brass clasps.
Credit line
Gift of Lydia L. Redmond, in memory of her mother and stepfather, Mr. and Mrs. William M. Clearwater, 1996.
Description
148 leaves (1 column, 29 lines), bound : paper, ill. ; 303 x 203 mm
Provenance
A nobleman's sale (London, Sotheby's, 16 February 1931, lot 225) to Foster; Maggs; purchased from Maggs by William M. Clearwater in 1932; Lydia L. Redmond; gift of Lydia L. Redmond in memory of her mother and stepfather, Mr. and Mrs. William M. Clearwater, in 1996.
Notes
Ms. historia trojana, and other texts, written and illuminated in northern Italy, ca. 1460-1470.
Decoration: three decorated initials, one preceding each text division.
Texts: 1) Dares, Historia Trojana (fols. 1-20); 2)Eutropius, Breviarum historiae romanae (fols. 21-84); 3) Florus, Epitome rerum Romanorum (fols. 86-144).
Decoration: three decorated initials, one preceding each text division.
Texts: 1) Dares, Historia Trojana (fols. 1-20); 2)Eutropius, Breviarum historiae romanae (fols. 21-84); 3) Florus, Epitome rerum Romanorum (fols. 86-144).
Script
humanistic cursive
Language
Latin
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