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Language Latin Place Lyons, France Level [32] Fonds

1. Add MS 29250

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Add MS 29250
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, 'Treatise on the Astrolabe', with incunables printed by Peter Liechenstein and Johann Trechsel
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of the 'Treatise on the Astrolabe', written by the poet Geoffrey Chaucer (b. c. 1340s, d. 1400). The treatise has been bound together with some late 15th-century incunables: Ephemerides sive Almanack perpetuus by the Castilian astronomer and historian Abraham Za...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

2. Add MS 57911

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Add MS 57911
Title:
GAIUS SUETONIUS TRANQUILLUS: 'De vita duodecim Caesarum'; Italy, late 15th cent. Latin. 16th-cent. note inside the upper board 'Emptus.xxxv.B.'. Near contemporary Italian paper title pasted in (f. iv). Owned by Benoit Le Court, a 16th-cent. jurist and humanist from Lyons, whose coat of arms is stamped at the centre of each cover panel. The 16th-cent. purchase note inside the upper board is similar to notes in other manuscripts from his library. See D. Gid, Catalogue des reliures françoises e...
Scope & Content:
Bindings FRENCH: Lyons, France: Blind-tooled binding for Benoit Le Court bound in Lyons: mid 16th cent.: Lat. History: Art. Illuminations and Drawings ITALIAN: Biography: Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, historian: De vita duodecim Caesarum by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus: late 15th cent.: Lat.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
1 item