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Ystoria gestoru[m] Alexandri pueri magni.

Publication:
[Germany], [1400-1450]
Format/Description:
Manuscript
40 leaves : paper ; 186 x 144 (159 x 104) mm bound to 191 x 152 mm
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Other Title:
Historia gestorum Alexandri pueri magni.
Subjects:
Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C. -- Romances.
Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C.
Romances, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- Early works to 1800.
Romances, Latin (Medieval and modern).
Romances.
Form/Genre:
Codices.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Medieval.
Romances (document genre)
Language:
Latin.
Summary:
Heroic recounting of deeds of Alexander the Great.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title from incipit (f. 1r).
Foliation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 40 + i (modern paper); [1-40]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in a single column of 32-34 lines; many spaces left for ornamental initials.
Decoration: Rubrication and capital strokes in red (ff. 1-32).
Binding: Modern paper boards.
Origin: Written in Germany in the first half of the 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
Incipit: [S]apientissimi namque Egyptii sub omni natione que sub celoest scientes mensura[m] t[er]re atque undas maris d[omi]nantes...
Explicit: Unde talis i[m]p[er]ator, si fieri posset, nec nasci debuit nec umquam mori. Explicunt gesta Alexandri pueri magni.
A late medieval version of the Historia de preliis by Archipresbyter Leo (Zacour-Hirsch).
Penn Provenance:
Formerly owned by Ernst Schulz (Zacour-Hirsch).
Sold by Helmuth Domizlaff (Munich), 1952.
Cited in:
Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 10 (Ms. Latin 44).
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Codex 839
Contributor:
Schulz, Ernst, former owner.
Contains:
Leo, Archipresbyter, active 10th century. Historia de preliis.
OCLC:
155918820