Letters and treatises

Description

Title: Letters and treatises
Creator: Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420
Contributor: Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420.
Published / Created: [1425-1475]
Publication Place: Italy
Abstract: Manuscript on paper of St. Jerome, 96 Epistles. With 1) Hieronymus Stridonensis (c. 348-420), Epistulae, and related texts. 2) Hieronymus Stridonensis, Vita Malchi. 3) Table of contents. A later hand has added in the right margin the folio numbers where the various texts are to be found
Description: In Latin.
Script: copied by one hand in Humanistica Textualis with elements of Southern Gothica Textualis. Running headlines in rapid Gothico-Humanistica Cursiva. The scribe Dominicus (or Donatus?) de Attavantis (see f. 238v) is not recorded.
Pale red headings; pale red numbering of the letters. 2-line plain initials (Capitalis) at the opening of the various texts. On f. 1r 8-line historiated white vinestem initial D (Jerome writing in his study), incorporated in a three-margins left border in the same style, featuring birds, a putto, a theatre mask and in the lower horizontal section a coat of arms (altered?) held by two putti.
Binding: seventeenth century (?): brown leather over pasteboard, the front and rear cover decorated with gold-tooled frames.
Provenance: Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
Extent: ff. 240 :
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): Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420.
Subject (Topic): Latin letters
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420
Latin letters
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Jerome, Letters and Treatises. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.