Toxaris : manuscript, 1545-1547
- Title
- Toxaris : manuscript, 1545-1547
Alternative Title: Phillipps MS 853
Alternative Title: Dialogi. Selections. French - Creator / Contributor
- Lucian, of Samosata
- Place of Origin
- France
- Language
- French
- Description
- Extent: 46 leaves, bound : vellum ; 19 cm.
print - Subjects
- Friendship
- Abstract
- Translated into French prose by Jacques de Rozières and dedicated to Marguerite de France, duchess of Savoy, daughter of François I.
- Genre
- essay
Manuscripts, Renaisssance-Italy-1500-1550.
Rules (layout features)
Clasps (fasteners)
Ribbon markers. - Notes
- Written in bâtarde script in an unidentified hand in 1 column of 23 lines. Blank spaces left for initials.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Bound in contemporary brown calf with interlace strapwork, painted over in black and white and tooled in silver (painted over), with two silver clasps.
In a tray case, 22 cm.
MS Richardson 15. Houghton Library, Harvard University. - Series
- Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library
- Repository
- Houghton Library, Harvard University
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