Historia de preliis Alexandri Magni
F-blzi
Cambridge, MA, Harvard University, Houghton Library, MS Lat 34
Harvard University, HOLLIS (Born Digital)
Description URL
http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990093162450203941/catalog
http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990093162450203941/catalog
General Information
Title
Historia de preliis Alexandri Magni
Shelfmarks
MS Lat 34
Material
vellum
Place of Origin
Written in Italy, probably in Bologna
Script, Hands
Written southern gothic bookhand.
Original Condition
Collation
In a 15th-cent. (?) Italian binding of wooden boards with later leather spine.
Book Decoration and Musical Notation
Description
First folio contains one historiated initial of Alexander the Great enthroned and an illuminated acanthus border; colored initials with pen flourishes at secondary divisions.
Bibliography
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Laura Light, Catalogue of medieval and renaissance manuscripts in the Houghton Library, Harvard University, I, 37-40.
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De Ricci, 979.