Hieronimus: De viris illustribus ;

This material is held atNational Library of Wales / Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru

  • Reference
    • GB 210 NLW MS 21875A.
  • Alternative Id.
      (alternative) vtls004271274
      (alternative) (WlAbNL)0000271274
  • Dates of Creation
    • [c. 1430x1440] /
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • Latin.
  • Physical Description
    • ii, 97 ff. : Parchment (probably Italian, many leaves palimpsest, barely legible, e.g. ff. 43-6, 84-91) ; 142 x 98 mm. Bound in black morocco, tooled in blind and gold, first half of nineteenth century.
  • Location
    • ARCH/MSS (GB0210)

Scope and Content

Jerome's De viris illustribus in the semi-humanistic hand of Milo de Carraria, who was active as a scribe in Italy, Cologne, Bruges and London from 1437 to 1447 (see Duke Humfrey and English humanism in the Fifteenth century: Catalogue of an Exhibition held in the Bodleian Library Oxford (Oxford, 1970), p. 13).

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Acquisition Information

Mr William Salloch; Ossining, New York; Purchase (no. 5 in catalogue 382); 1982

Note

Title based on contents.

Preferred citation: NLW MS 21875A.

Other Finding Aids

The contents of NLW MSS 21701-22852 are indexed in greater detail in Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, vol. 8 (Aberystwyth, 1999).

Custodial History

No. 235 in the Barrois collection sold in 1849 to the Earl of Ashburnham; no. 270 in the Ashburnham sale in 1901; bought by Tregaskis and listed as no. 1142 in his catalogue 494 and also in later catalogues; bought in 1910 by the General Theological Seminary, New York (see inside front cover and de Ricci, Census, p. 1286).

Additional Information

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