Accession number
MS B.51
Object title
Encheiridon (MS B.51).
Created
Italy, 16th century
Binding
18th-century (?) mottled calf with, as yet, unidentified arms (an anchor above a crescent, in chief a crescent between 2 stars of 5 points) laid into gold-tooled brown calf.
Credit line
Bequest of Curt F. Bühler, 1985.
Description
28 leaves (1 column, 25-28 lines), bound : paper ; 223 x 157 mm
Provenance
Purchased by Curt F. Bühler at Sotheby's (London, Feb. 20, 1967, lot 155).
Notes
Ms. written in Italy, 16th century.
An Italian translation from Politian's Latin translation from the original Greek that was done for Lorenzo de'Medici.
This may be the translator's autograph manuscript--Cf. PML files.
An Italian translation from Politian's Latin translation from the original Greek that was done for Lorenzo de'Medici.
This may be the translator's autograph manuscript--Cf. PML files.
Script
cursive
Language
Italian
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