Accession number
MS M.1104
Object title
Comoediae (MS M.1104).
Display Date
ca. 1450.
Created
Southern Germany, ca. 1450.
Binding
Original wooden boards, with added morocco spine, a single fore-edge clasp with a 2-headed bird in relief.
Credit line
Gift of Lydia L. Redmond, in memory of her mother and stepfather, Mr. and Mrs. William M. Clearwater, 1996.
Description
97 leaves (1 column, 33-35 lines), bound : paper ; 308 x 220 mm.
Provenance
Offered by De Bure frères, cat. VII (Apr. 1840), p. 7 n. 50, and sold to Payne and Foss (Catalogue of manuscripts, 1850, p. 31 n. 339); their sale (London, Apr. 30, 1857, lot 357) to Burges; Samuel Allen of Lisconnan, County Antrim; Captain S. Allen sale (London, Jan. 30, 1920, lot 105) to Maggs; Giuseppe Martini; purchased from Martini by William M. Clearwater; 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. Comoediae, written in Southern Germany, ca. 1450.
According to Paul Needham, this was a German student's manuscript.
Colophon fol. 97: Finis / Die 12 mensis decembris hora sexta in domo preceptorij.
According to Paul Needham, this was a German student's manuscript.
Colophon fol. 97: Finis / Die 12 mensis decembris hora sexta in domo preceptorij.
Script
textura
Language
Latin
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