Collection ID: 0053 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Gesta inclita Tyrii Appollonii regis

Other related names

• Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. 1820-1889, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80075855)
• Folger, Henry Clay, 1857-1930, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr2002007592)
• Folger, Emily C. J. 1858-1936, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr2003016105)
• Warwick Castle (Warwick, England). Shakespeare Library, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2009092177)

Call number

Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, MS V.a.77
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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 219288

Language

In Latin

Origin

Date

ca. 1450

Summary

Contains a romantic, post-classical tale about Appollonius of Tyre, who travels to Antioch to seek the hand of the King's daughter.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title from opening rubric (leaf 1r).
   
• Leaves 1r-16v: "[rubr.] Gesta inclita Tyrii Appollonii regis. [text] [R]ex Antiocus a quo Antiocia ciuitas nomen acceperat ex amissa coniuge habuit filiam uirginem ... et quiete feliceque uita uixit omnibus diebus regni sui." (Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri / edited by G. Schmeling. Leipzig: Teubner, 1988, p. 84-136).
   

Extent

20 leaves :

Collation

Leaves ii + 20 + ii; 1¹² 2⁸; no catchwords.

Support

205 x 140 mm

Binding

Bound in 19th-century brown half morocco and half marbled paper boards.

Layout

Written in 27 long lines (dimensions of written space: 140 x 85 mm.); below first line; fully ruled in lead, possible mechanical device used.

Decoration

None.

Script

Written in a rapid English Cursive hand.

Provenance

• Purchased in 1897 by Henry Clay Folger from the Shakespearean Library of the Earl of Warwick.
   
• Formerly owned by Halliwell-Phillipps; Warwick Castle Shakespeare Library (coat of arms); H.S.R. (on blue paper attached to inside cover).
   

Subjects topical

• Apollonius of Tyre (Fictitious character)--Manuscripts

Genres

• Manuscripts, Latin--England--15th century
• Romances--England--15th century--Manuscripts

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri.
• fol. 1r — Incipit: [rubr.] Gesta inclita Tyrii Appollonii regis. [text] [R]ex Antiocus a quo Antiocia ciuitas nomen acceperat ex amissa coniuge habuit filiam uirginem ...
• fol. 1r — Explicit: ... et quiete feliceque uita uixit omnibus diebus regni sui. [f. 16v]

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Warwick Castle Shakespeare Library (coat of arms)