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| Author |
Octavio de Strada |
| Title |
Continuata Series et Historia omnium Germanorum Imperatorum… a Carolo Magno usque ad Rodolphum II… |
| Origin |
Bohemia (Prague?) |
| Date |
between 1583 and 1603 |
| Language |
Latin |
| Script |
Humanistic cursive |
| Decoration |
Reproductions of numismatic portraits, with exteriors compass-drawn in black ink and interior details drawn in purple ink. |
| Official foliation |
ff. 83 ( + 2 modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end) |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
BM/BL in-house. |
| Provenance |
Dedication to Frederick William, Duke of Saxony (f.2).
William Petty (formerly Fitzmaurice) (b. 1737, d. 1805), 2nd earl of Shelburne and 1st marquess of Lansdowne, prime minister; purchased by the British Museum together with 1244 other Lansdowne manuscripts in 1807. |
| Select bibliography |
[Henry Ellis and Francis Douce], A Catalogue of the Lansdowne Manuscripts in the British Museum (London, 1819). |
| Last revised: 05 December 2006 |
