Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Ystoria gestorum Alexandri pueri magni

Authors

• Leo, Archipresbyter, 10th cent

Other related names

• Schulz, Ernst, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 839
(Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9931779823503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155861005
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3177982

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

1400-1450

Place

Germany

Summary

Heroic recounting of deeds of Alexander the Great.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from incipit (f. 1r).
   
• Incipit: [S]apientissimi namque Egyptii sub omni natione que sub celoest scientes mensura[m] t[er]re atque undas maris d[omi]nantes...
   
• Explicit: Unde talis i[m]p[er]ator, si fieri posset, nec nasci debuit nec umquam mori. Explicunt gesta Alexandri pueri magni.
   
• A late medieval version of the Historia de preliis by Archipresbyter Leo (Zacour-Hirsch).
   

Extent

40 leaves : 186 x 144 (159 x 104) mm. bound to 191 x 152 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (modern paper) + 40 + i (modern paper); [1-40]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Modern paper boards.

Layout

Written in a single column of 32-34 lines; many spaces left for ornamental initials.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Ernst Schulz (Zacour-Hirsch).
   
• Sold by Helmuth Domizlaff (Munich), 1952.
   

Subjects topical

• Romances, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Manuscripts, Latin--15th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval
• Romances (document genre)

Keywords

• 15th century
• German
• Germany
• Paper
• Medieval romance

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