Humanistic commonplace book

Description

Title: Humanistic commonplace book
Published / Created: [between 1460 and 1470]
Publication Place: Verona
Abstract: Manuscript on paper of a collection of extracts primarily on virtues and vices
Description: In Latin.
Watermarks: unidentified letter (?), in gutter.
Script: Written in a calligraphic and sometimes flamboyant humanistic cursive script by a single scribe, below top line.
Large decorated initial, f. 2r, 16-line. Body of initial formed of intricate interlace bands, yellow and brown washes, against paper and yellow and brown ground; exhibits strong shading. Display script in red and blue. Rubrics (pale red) in text in humanistic bookhand.
Binding: Fifteenth century, Italy. Strips cut from a parchment manuscript (text washed) are adhered around the fold of each quire. Original sewing on three kermes pink, slit straps. The parchment sides are sewn with the first and last quires.
Provenance: Purchased in 1958 from Pierre Beres of Paris by L. C. Witten, who sold it in 1959 to Thomas E. Marston.
Extent: ff. 96 : 305 x 105 (250 x 62) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been partially digitized.
Language: Latin

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: Marston MS 201
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Genre: Commonplace books Italy 15th century
Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: paper ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Topic): Commonplace-books
Education, Humanistic
Manuscripts, Medieval
Vices
Virtues
Subjects: Commonplace-books
Education, Humanistic
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Vices
Virtues
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Humanistic Commonplace Book. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.