Notitia DignitatumAngeli de Aquila, Antonius (scribe) | |
Title/s | Notitia Dignitatum |
Maker/s | Angeli de Aquila, Antonius (scribe) |
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Description | Physical description: parchment, 5 ff., 260 x 205 mm Contents: Vicarius diocesos Pontice (f.1r), Sub dispositione uiri spectabilis uicarij diocesos pontice prouincie infrascripte (f. 1v), Consularis palestine (f. 2r), Preses thebaidos (f. 2v), Magister Scriniorum (f. 3r), Proconsul Africae (f. 3v), Dux Prouincie Valerie (f. 4r), Sub dispositione viri spectablis ducis prouincie ualerie ripensis (f. 4v), Preses dalmatie (f. 5), Sub uiris [dictione] uiri perfectissimi presidis dalmatie (f. 5v), Decoration: miniatures: 6 full page, 2 smaller. |
Production Notes | The five leaves are the only surviving fragment of the earliest known manuscript of the Notitia Dignitatum. It was copied from the twelfth-century Speyer manuscript, which was based on a sixth-century original and is now lost. Scribe's name in colophon (f. 1v). |
Date | 1427-07-13 |
Associations | Type: owner |
Provenance | bequeathed: Wormald, Francis 1972 (Filtered for: Manuscripts and Printed Books) Possibly from the Royal Library at Naples. Cardinal Orsini (d. 1439). Lot 705 at Puttick and Simpson's, 10 July 1861 (vendor unknown). Lot 342 in G. Libris's Sale at Sotheby's, 23 July 1862. Bought by Sir Thomas Phillipps (no 16397). Bought from Messrs Robinson in 1948 by Francis Wormald and given to the Museum by Mrs. Wormald in 1972. |
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Accession Number | MS 86-1972 (Manuscripts and Printed Books) |
Related Resources | Pharos - Making Art (see how a Medieval Manuscript was made) |
