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Aulus Gellius — c. 1460–70; Italian, Florence

Dep. c. 622

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Title

Aulus Gellius — c. 1460–70; Italian, Florence

Shelfmark

Dep. c. 622

Place of origin

Italian, Florence

Date

c. 1460–70

Language

Latin

Contents

Aulus Gellius Noctes atticarum

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Hands

Humanistic script. The unidentified scribe of the fragment also wrote Florence, Biblioteca Laurenziana, Plut. 65, 22, Diogenes Laertius with ex-libris of Pierodi Cosimo de Medici and British Library, MSS. Add. 18784, Petrarch, Canzoniere and Trionfi, with arms possibly Gherardesca of Florence, and Harl. 3385, Petrarch, Trionfi, with arms of Tedaldi of Florence.

Decoration

Plain blue initials to chapters.

Acquisition

Deposited by the Ashmolean Museum, 1979. Found among the personal papers of Lucien Pissarro.

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  • Gellius, Aulus

  • Pissaro, Lucien

  • Vespucci, Giorgio Antonio, approximately 1434-1514

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