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- [c. 1430x1440] / (Creation)
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Extent and medium
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.
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Archival 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).
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Mr William Salloch; Ossining, New York; Purchase (no. 5 in catalogue 382); 1982
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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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Language and script notes
Latin.
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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).
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Note
Title based on contents.
Note
Preferred citation: NLW MS 21875A.
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Name access points
- Jerome, Saint, ca. 342-420. (Subject)
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This description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH.
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Language(s)
- English