Historiae Alexandri Magni (fragment).

Description

Title: Historiae Alexandri Magni (fragment).
Creator: Curtius Rufus, Quintus
Published / Created: [between 1390 and 1410].
Publication Place: Italy
Abstract: Manuscript fragment on parchment of Quintus Curtius Rufus' Historiae Alexandri Magni
Description: In Latin.
Script: written in rounded gothic bookhand (gothico-humanistica).
Decoration: 1-line initials are brown capitals; there are brief notes on the text written in the margin in a cursive humanistic script of the fifteenth century; punctuated with the punctus.
Provenance: Gift of the Yale University Library Associates; purchased from Kraus in 1948; the bifolium was used as the wrapper for another volume; a large number of miscellaneous pen trials, notes, and jottings are represented in the margins of the fragment.
Extent: ff. 1-2 : 307 x 211 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Greece
Subject (Name): Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C.
Curtius Rufus, Quintus.
Subject (Topic): Manuscripts, Medieval
History
Historiography
Subjects: Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C.
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Curtius Rufus, Quintus
Greece > History > Macedonian Expansion, 359-323 B.C. > Historiography
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Quintus Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni (fragment). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.