Historiae Alexandri Magni (fragment).

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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: 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.
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.
Script: written in rounded gothic bookhand (gothico-humanistica).
Extent: ff. 1-2 : parchment ; 307 x 211 mm.
Extent of Digitization: Completely digitized
Language: Latin

Format: text
Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval.
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Geographic): Greece--History--Macedonian Expansion, 359-323 B.C.--Historiography.
Subject (Name): Alexander,--the Great,--356 B.C.-323 B.C.
Curtius Rufus, Quintus.--Historia Alexandri Magni.
Subject (Topic): Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven.
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.

Orbis Record: 12851101
OID: 2004137
More Information: https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/ms484.7.pdf