Epigrammata (fragment).

Description

Title: Epigrammata (fragment).
Creator: Prosper, of Aquitaine, Saint, approximately 390-approximately 463
Published / Created: approximately 1300-approximately 1349.
Publication Place: Northern Italy
Abstract: Manuscript fragments, on parchment, containing parts of the text of Saint Prosper of Aquitaine's Epigrammata. One partial bifolium also contains a fragment of the poem Ad Uxorem, once thought to be by the same author
Description: In Latin.
Script: gothica textualis rotunda italiana.
Decoration: larger initials in red ink; smaller initials in brown ink touched with red ink.
Layout: single columns of 24 lines each.
Provenance: Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd. on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 1999.
Extent: 7 partial bifolia : 182 mm x 232 mm and smaller.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: text
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Prosper, of Aquitaine, Saint, approximately 390-approximately 463.
Subject (Topic): Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Prosper, of Aquitaine, Saint, approximately 390-approximately 463
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Italy > 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Saint Prosper of Aquitaine, Epigrammata (Fragment). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.