De cognitione habita apud demones

Description

Title: De cognitione habita apud demones
Published / Created: [between 1400 and 1500]
Publication Place: Italy
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of Dialogue: "De cognitione habita apud demones," with an unidentified text
Description: In Latin.
Script: copied by one hand writing a late and imperfect Humanistica Textualis Formata. The closing formula and the alphabet at the end of the dialogue in Capitalis.
The texts in Capitalis are stroked in red. Numerous 2-line initials: a Capitalis letter in gold on a bordeaux-coloured rectangular background heightened with silver penwork.
Binding: original Italian binding: brown leather over wooden boards, the covers blind-tooled with fillets and rope-work forming a cross inscribed in a frame. At the top of the spine a parchment label with the handwritten inscription s. XVII: “R / De cogni/tione / demo/nis / circa / Christum” (doubtful reading).
Extent: ff. I + 6 + I : 180 x 115 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: Beinecke MS 992
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Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Topic): Dialogues, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Dialogues, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: De Cognitione Habita apud Demones. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.