[History of Rome and other texts].

Accession number:

MS W.8

Title:

Created:

[ca. 1550]

Credit:

Gift; Julia Parker Wightman; April, 1993.

Description:

473 leaves (1 column, 16-18 lines), bound : paper ; 142 x 100 mm.

Provenance:

Charles H. Kalbfleisch (small leather bookplate stamped with initials CHK on inside front cover above Wightman bookplate; purchased by Julia Parker Wightman from Harry A. Levinson, Beverly Hills, CA, in 1954; JPW 2331; given in April, 1993.

Notes:

Ms. history and other texts; written in France, ca. 1550.
Texts: History of Rome from the time of Christ (fols. 1-115); Platina, Aristotle (selections, fols. 117-346); Treatise on Mythology (fols. 347-473v).
Binding: Early 17th-century Parisian brown calf, flat back, richly gold-tooled in leafy designs and ornamental borders, gilt edges, in brown levant and cloth slip case.

Script:

cursive Secretary.

Language:

In Latin;

Century:

Genres:

Calf bindings (Binding)

Gold tooled bindings (Binding)