Confutationes

Description

Title: Confutationes
Creator: Valla, Lorenzo, 1407-1457
Published / Created: [ca. 1460-70]
Publication Place: Rome
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of Lorenzo Valla, Confutationes. 1) Antidotum in Poggium, Books I-III. 2) Antidotum in Poggium, Book IV. 3) Dialogus in Poggium, Book I. 4) Confutatio prior in Benedictum Morandum
Description: In Latin.
Script: Written in a round humanistic script by a single scribe, above top line.
Illuminated page (f. 1r) with partial border in outer and lower margins, white vine-stem ornament on predominately green and red ground, with some blue and white dots, framed by thin gold bars. In lower border, unidentified mutilated coat of arms, against blue ground. Seven illuminated initials, 4- to 2-line, gold, against blue, green and red grounds with white vine-stem ornament and white dots. Headings and marginal annotations in pale red.
Binding: ca. 1900, England. Red goatskin case with gold-tooled title "Valla In Poggium MS" and turn-ins. Gilt edges. Bound by Zaehnsdorf (London, 1842-1930).
Provenance: Acquired in 1954 from C. A. Stonehill by Thomas E. Marston.
Extent: ff. ii + 174 + ii : 213 x 133 (141 x 87) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Valla, Lorenzo, 1407-1457.
Subject (Topic): Dialogues, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Valla, Lorenzo, 1407-1457
Dialogues, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Lorenzo Valla, Confutationes. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.