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Decorated headpiece and border from BL Arundel 531, f. 1
Foliate headpiece with four roundels enclosing birds and busts, and foliate border three roundels enclosing a bust and two armorial shields, (the border is possibly a later addition), at the beginning of Diogenes Laertius's De vitis philosophorum. Image taken from f. 1 of De vitis philosophorum. Written in Greek, with a few marginal notes in Latin.
Creator
- Diogenes Laertius
- Diogenes Laërtius
Subject
- British Library Arundel Collection
- BL Arundel 531
- f. 1
- Greek minuscule, with a change of hand from f. 87
Type of item
- Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts
- illuminated manuscripts
- Illuminated manuscript
Date
- 2nd half of the 15th century
- 1450 - 1499
- 1450/1499
Creator
- Diogenes Laertius
- Diogenes Laërtius
Subject
- British Library Arundel Collection
- BL Arundel 531
- f. 1
- Greek minuscule, with a change of hand from f. 87
Type of item
- Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts
- illuminated manuscripts
- Illuminated manuscript
Date
- 2nd half of the 15th century
- 1450 - 1499
- 1450/1499
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Rights
- Public Domain. Attribution to the British Library is recommended. For further details please visit: http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/reuse.asp
Places
- Eastern Mediterranean (Crete?) or Italy, N. E. (Venice?)
Identifier
- c5446-05
Extent
- 260 x 185 (210 x 130)
Format
- JPEG
Language
- grc ; lat
Is part of
- http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=1847
- http://data.theeuropeanlibrary.org/Collection/a1348
Relations
- De vitis philosophorum
Providing country
- United Kingdom
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2015-03-26T11:22:21.549Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2015-05-15T11:16:52.885Z