An Album Amicorum, carelessly arranged and written, but containing signatures and mottos chiefly of Austrians, written at Bonn, Venice, and Constantinople, written in 1583-1604

File

MS. Douce 32

Held at the Weston Library

Among the signatures and mottos are:

(fol. 6v) Itelius Fridericus, comes ab Hohen Zollern
(fol. 18) Joannes Christophorus comes ab Hohen Zollern
(fol. 20) Bartholomæus Pezzen, secretary of the Austrian legation at Constantinople

There are some illuminated arms, and at fol. 7b a painting of a giraffe.

Dates

39 Leaves

MS. Douce 32

Falconer Madan, et al., A summary catalogue of western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford which have not hitherto been catalogued in the Quarto series (7 vols. in 8 [vol. II in 2 parts], Oxford, 1895-1953; reprinted, with corrections in vols. I and VII, Munich, 1980), vol. IV, no 21606

Our best descriptions for medieval items in this collection are in Medieval Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries under MSS. Douce.

On parchment

5 3/8 × 3 3/4 in.

Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository

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