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De bello Gallico / Julius Caesar
border decoration, decorated initials
Creator
- Julius Caesar
- Julius Caesar
Subject
- historiography (MMDC)
- Middle Ages
- Reading culture (medieval)
- Reading culture
- Reading culture (courtly)
- Reading culture
Type of item
- manuscripts (documents)
- illuminated manuscripts
- Illuminated manuscript
- Manuscript
Medium
- parchment (animal material)
- Parchment
Creator
- Julius Caesar
- Julius Caesar
Subject
- historiography (MMDC)
- Middle Ages
- Reading culture (medieval)
- Reading culture
- Reading culture (courtly)
- Reading culture
Type of item
- manuscripts (documents)
- illuminated manuscripts
- Illuminated manuscript
- Manuscript
Medium
- parchment (animal material)
- Parchment
Providing institution
Aggregator
Intermediate provider
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Creation date
- 1385
- 14th century
- 1385
- 14th century
Current location
- Leiden University Library
Provenance
- Bought at the auction at D. Haak, Leiden, from the library of M. Röver in 1806.
- Possibly made for Jean-Galeas Visconti, according to Lieftinck (1964).
- Visconti, Jean-Galeas
- Röver, Matthias, (1719-1803)
Identifier
- Shelfmark: BPL 16 A
Extent
- 1 volume, 99 leaves
- 297x218 mm
Format
- books
- Book
Language
- lat
- Latin
- lat
Is part of
- Art of Reading in the Middle Ages: previously digitised item
- In collection: Bibliotheca Publica Latina
Is referenced by
- Bollati 2004 = M. Bollati (ed.), Dizionario biografico dei miniatori Italiani. Milano 2004, p. 865
- Brown 1979 = V. Brown, 'Latin manuscripts of Caesar's Gallic war'. In: Palaeographica, diplomatica, archivistica. [Festschrift] G. Battelli. Roma 1979, vol. 1, p. 133
- Catalogus compendiarius 1932 = [H.P. Blok,] Catalogus compendiarius continens codices omnes manuscriptos qui in Bibliotheca Academiae Lugduno-Batavae asservantur. Vol. 1 (Leiden 1932), p. 98
- Geel 1852 = J. Geel, Catalogus librorum manuscriptorum qui inde ab anno 1741 bibliothecae Lugduno Batavae accesserunt. Leiden 1852, nr. 405
- Gumbert 1995 = J.P. Gumbert, '"Modern" layout in classical manuscripts'. In: C. Leonardi & al. (eds.), The classical tradition in the middle ages and the renaissance. Spoleto 1995, p. 23-32.
- Gumbert 2009 = J.P. Gumbert, Illustrated Inventory of Medieval Manuscripts. Vol. 2. Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek BPL (Hilversum 2009), nr. 1044
- Lieftinck 1964 = G.I. Lieftinck, Manuscrits datés conservés dans les Pays-Bas. Vol. 1. Les manuscrits d'origine étrangère, 816-c.1550 (Amsterdam 1964), nr. 157
- MMDC = Medieval Manuscripts in Dutch Collections
- Molhuysen 1912 = P.C. Molhuysen, Codices Bibliothecae Publicae Latini. Leiden 1912, p. 11
- Pellegrin 1969 = E. Pellegrin, La bibliothèque des Visconti et des Sforzas, Supplement, avec 175 Planches. Florence/Paris 1969, p. 18
Year
- 1385
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2021-12-21T16:02:40.639Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2024-02-28T18:55:56.900Z