Tiberias, a Treatise on the Tiber and its Banks; and other tracts, 1475

  • Tiberias_HLS MS 75_HOLLIS 004108038_fol.1r_seq.5.tif

    Tiberias, a treatise on the Tiber and its banks...1475, fol.1r

    The first page of this Italian manuscript has an illustration of a surveyor and a lawyer (or judge) on the banks of the Tiber.

  • Tiberias_HLS MS 75_HOLLIS 004108038_front cover_seq.1.tif

    Tiberias, a treatise on the Tiber and its banks...1475, HL MS 75

    This manuscript is bound in eighteenth century Italian half-vellum.

  • Tiberias_HLS MS 75_HOLLIS 004108038_fol.15v_seq.34.tif

    Tiberias, a treatise on the Tiber and its banks...1475, fol.15v

    This is one of 38 diagrams in the manuscript showing how to survey boundaries, especially along rivers and bodies of water.

Bound manuscript on paper: 276 leaves, 22 cm tall
HLS MS 75
HOLLIS 4108038

This Italian manuscript, written in Latin in an attractive hand, begins with “Tiberias,” a treatise about the river Tiber. It is opened to the initial page, which features a spectacular hand-painted border of flowers, birds, and figures. The central illustration is of a surveyor and a lawyer (or judge) standing on the banks of the Tiber. Tiberias contains many smaller illustrations showing how to survey boundaries along rivers. The volume also includes a variety of canon and civil law treatises, as well as legal dictionaries. See every page online via its HOLLIS catalog record.