Della vera nobilità.

Description

Title: Della vera nobilità.
Creator: Cornazzano, Antonio, 1429-1484
Published / Created: [between 1470 and 1475].
Publication Place: Northern Italy (Brescia?)
Abstract: Manuscript on goatskin parchment of Antonio Cornazzano, Della vera nobilità, a poem in terzine in honor of the condottiere Antonio Martinengo (d. 1473, Brescia). This is probably the presentation copy of the poem
Description: Script: Copied by one hand in Humanistica Textualis; the first majuscule of each terzine placed between the double bounding-lines at left of the text.
Decoration: The Latin headings in front of each of the seven sections of the poem seem to have been deleted. Each section opens with a 2-line gold initial on a square coloured background heightened with white, yellow or gold penwork. The initial is accompanied by three gold balls in black penwork flourishes in the margin. Marginal annotations throughout appear in pale red ink.
Binding: The original parchment covers and spine are pasted onto new boards; the covers are gold-tooled with a fillet and a floweret in each corner.
In Italian.
Provenance: Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
Extent: ff. 27 : 200 x 135 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Italian

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Italy.
Subject (Name): Cornazzano, Antonio, 1429-1484.
Subject (Topic): Manuscripts, Medieval
Nobility
Italian poetry
Subjects: Cornazzano, Antonio, 1429-1484
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Nobility > Italy
Italian poetry > 15th century
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Antonio Cornazzano, Della vera nobilità. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.