Gesta inclita Tyrii Appollonii regis [manuscript], ca. 1450.
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Title
Gesta inclita Tyrii Appollonii regis [manuscript], ca. 1450.
Uniform title
Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri.
Description
20 leaves : 205 x 140 mm
Associated name
Material base
Manuscript on paper (fairly early German paper, produced perhaps ca. 1400).
Scope and content
Contains a romantic, post-classical tale about Appollonius of Tyre, who travels to Antioch to seek the hand of the King's daughter.
Language Note
In Latin.
Note
Manuscript codex.
Title from opening rubric (leaf 1r).
Collation: Leaves ii + 20 + ii; 1¹² 2⁸; no catchwords.
Layout: Written in 27 long lines (dimensions of written space: 140 x 85 mm.); below first line; fully ruled in lead, possible mechanical device used.
Script: Written in a rapid English Cursive hand.
Decoration: None.
Origin: England, perhaps early 15th century.
Shelfmark: Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, MS V.a.77.
Title from opening rubric (leaf 1r).
Collation: Leaves ii + 20 + ii; 1¹² 2⁸; no catchwords.
Layout: Written in 27 long lines (dimensions of written space: 140 x 85 mm.); below first line; fully ruled in lead, possible mechanical device used.
Script: Written in a rapid English Cursive hand.
Decoration: None.
Origin: England, perhaps early 15th century.
Shelfmark: Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, MS V.a.77.
Contents
Leaves 1r-16v: "[rubr.] Gesta inclita Tyrii Appollonii regis. [text] [R]ex Antiocus a quo Antiocia ciuitas nomen acceperat ex amissa coniuge habuit filiam uirginem ... et quiete feliceque uita uixit omnibus diebus regni sui." (Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri / edited by G. Schmeling. Leipzig: Teubner, 1988, p. 84-136).
Binding information
Bound in 19th-century brown half morocco and half marbled paper boards.
Provenance
Formerly owned by Halliwell-Phillipps; Warwick Castle Shakespeare Library (coat of arms); H.S.R. (on blue paper attached to inside cover).
Source of acquisition
Purchased in 1897 by Henry Clay Folger from the Shakespearean Library of the Earl of Warwick.
Cited/described in
Some account of the antiquities, coins, manuscripts, rare books, ancient documents, and other reliques illustrative of the life and works of Shakespeare, 106
Ricci, S. de. Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, 1.106
Ricci, S. de. Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, 1.106
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Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England.
Item Details
Call number
V.a.77
Folger accession
cs1