Rendel Harris 44a Essay on Greek and Roman history
Title
Essay on Greek and Roman historyAuthors
- Lauro Palazzolo 1410-1465 (http://viaf.org/viaf/40310438)
Other related names
- Malipiero, Pasquale, 1392-1462, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/173061825)
- Lockwood, Dean Putnam, 1883-, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/116136638)
Funders
- Council on Library and Information Resources
Call number
Rendel Harris 44a(Haverford, United States, Haverford College, Quaker & Special Collections, Rendel Harris)
Alternate identifiers
Publisher
Quaker & Special CollectionsLanguage
LatinOrigin
- Place
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Padua
Summary
This manuscript contains the Oratio ad ducem Pasqualem Malapetrum of Laurus de Papazolis (Lauro Palazzolo), an address of greeting to the doge on the occasion of his visit to the faculty of law at Padua University, with references to Greek and Roman history. The author was a professor of canon and civil law at the university. The manuscript is written on parchment with an illuminated initial and the arms of the doge on the opening page. Marginal notes in red are proper names mentioned or alluded to in the text.
Extent
Ii+11+ii; 220 x 144 mm bound to 225 x 150 mmFoliation
Number 8 appears in the center of the upper margin of folio 9r in modern pencilCollation
1 (11, +1)Support
ParchmentBinding
Nineteenth-century leather binding with gilt tooling and spine title Palozio, by Joseph Zaehnsdorf (London); paper flyleavesLayout
Decoration
Arms of the doge Pasquale Malipiero on flanked by letters P and M in red, green, blue, yellow and gold leaf (fol. 2r); one six-line illuminated initial in pink and green on gold ground (fol. 2r); names mentioned in the oration are noted in the margins in red
Script
Provenance
- Arms of the doge Pasquale Malipiero (r. 1457-1462) flanked by letters P and M in lower margin of opening page (fol. 2r); formerly owned by Dean P. Lockwood (Haverford College)
Keywords
- 15th century
- History
- Italy
- Italian
- Humanistic
- Illumination
Licenses
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- Text
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- Text
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Images
Inside front cover
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fol. 2r
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Section: Laurus de Papazolis, Oratio ad ducem Pasqualem Malapetrum
Decoration: Arms of Pasquale Malipiero
Decoration: Illuminated initial D