MS. Add. A. 187

Summary Catalogue no.: 29156

'Sir John de Mandeville', Travels (in the vulgate Latin translation)

Colophon: ... Scriptus atque finitus In terra Colla de garderane districtus Verrone trygesimo die mensis Julij anni Millesimi Quadringentesimi Quadragesimi quinti ... Qui me scribebat Anthonius nomen habebat

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment, paper

Extent: 70 fols.

Dimensions (leaf): 225 × 150 mm.

Dimensions (written): 150 × 95 mm.

Layout

1 col., c. 35–8 lines.

Decoration

Coloured initials.

Rubrics.

History

Origin: 1445 ; Italian, Verona

Provenance and Acquisition

No. 37 in a French 19th cent. sale catalogue.

Bought from Thomas Boone of London, 1879, for £2 2s.

Record Sources

Adapted (2017) from A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts, and from the Summary Catalogue (1905).

Summary Catalogue, Vol. 5, p. 572

Bibliography

A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c.435–1600 in Oxford Libraries (Oxford, 1984), no. 10

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2017-07-01: First online publication.

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