Historia Bohemica by Aeneas Silvius
Reference code
MSS/0055
Title
Historia Bohemica by Aeneas Silvius
Date
15th century
Level of description
item
Extent and format
Paper; ff. iv + 107.
Quarto.
White leather over wooden boards, remains of fastening. Modern blue box lined with velvet. 15th-16th century annotations:- 'Emi ducatis quatuor', 'Liber fratris Antio(?) [?Antonii] de Pexario', 'Fr Antonius', and the name Dominicho gritt(us?), fol. 107. Other annotations, fols. i, 105v. Bookplate of Dr. Thomas Morell, DD, FRS, FSA (d. 1784), fol. iii, who presented it.
Quarto.
White leather over wooden boards, remains of fastening. Modern blue box lined with velvet. 15th-16th century annotations:- 'Emi ducatis quatuor', 'Liber fratris Antio(?) [?Antonii] de Pexario', 'Fr Antonius', and the name Dominicho gritt(us?), fol. 107. Other annotations, fols. i, 105v. Bookplate of Dr. Thomas Morell, DD, FRS, FSA (d. 1784), fol. iii, who presented it.
Scope and content
The Historia Bohemica of Aeneas Silvius, in five books, with preface addressed to Alphonso, King of Aragon. Written in a humanist hand, in Italy. Spaces for initials. Catchwords throughout. Marginal annotations in many hands, 15th-17th century. Miscellaneous notes, genealogical (Ham, Trojans, etc.), and historical, including references to the Silvii, fol. iv; short note 'De origine gentis gallice', fol. 104v, after the end of the main text. Ker, MMBL, I (1969), 302.
Creator
Morell, Thomas (1703-1784), classical scholar, poet, librettist and antiquary
Piccolomini, Eneo Silvio Bartolomeo (1405-1464), Italian Renaissance author and later Pope
Piccolomini, Eneo Silvio Bartolomeo (1405-1464), Italian Renaissance author and later Pope
Previous reference number(s)
SAL/MS/55
Language
Latin