Pliny the Younger — before Feb. 1443/4; Italian, Milan
MS. Duke Humfrey d. 1
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Pliny the Younger — before Feb. 1443/4; Italian, Milan
Shelfmark
MS. Duke Humfrey d. 1
Place of origin
Italian, Milan
Date
before Feb. 1443/4
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Decoration
Good initials. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 697)
Binding
Seventeenth-century Oxford binding of reddish brown leather, with the arms of the University and its motto 'Sapientia. fælicitas' in gilt.
Acquisition
'Anno Domini MDCXX° 8bris 30. Robertus Master LL: Doctor Cancellarius Episcopi Coven: et Lichfeild Oxoniensi Bibliothecæ Dono dedit & restituit hunc librum, olim ad Humphredum Ducem Glocestriæpertinentem, vt videre est propria ipsius manu scriptum in vltima pagina huius Libri'.
Provenance
2 o folio: 'non me'. Given to Oxford by Duke Humphrey in 1443/4, no. 75. Vickers, p. 426. (MLGB3)
Oxford, Oxfordshire, University: (MLGB3: inferred evidence).
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