Accession number
MS W.8
Object title
History of Rome and other texts.
Created
France, ca. 1550
Binding
Early 17th-century Parisian brown calf, flat back, richly gold-tooled in leafy designs and ornamental borders, gilt edges, in brown levant and cloth slip case.
Credit line
Gift of Julia Wightman, April 1993.
Description
473 leaves (1 column, 16-18 lines), bound : paper ; 142 x 100 mm
Provenance
Charles H. Kalbfleisch (small leather bookplate stamped with initials CHK on inside front cover above Wightman bookplate; purchased by Julia Parker Wightman from Harry A. Levinson, Beverly Hills, CA, in 1954; JPW 2331; given in April, 1993.
Notes
Ms. history and other texts; written in France, ca. 1550.
Texts: History of Rome from the time of Christ (fols. 1-115); Platina, Aristotle (selections, fols. 117-346); Treatise on Mythology (fols. 347-473v).
Texts: History of Rome from the time of Christ (fols. 1-115); Platina, Aristotle (selections, fols. 117-346); Treatise on Mythology (fols. 347-473v).
Script
cursive Secretary
Language
Latin
Century
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