Aeneis

Description

Title: Aeneis
Creator: Virgil
Published / Created: [between 1350 and 1360]
Publication Place: Italy
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of Virgil, Aeneis, in an Italian prose abridgement by Andrea Lancia
Description: In Italian.
Script: copied by a single hand writing Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria/Formata (Rotunda). Stroking of the majuscules. 2-line flourished initials with simple penwork at the opening of the chapters. More elaborate flourished initials, 2 to 7 lines, at the opening of the Books. On f. 1r an 8-line littera duplex.
Publius Vergilius Maro (70-19 B.C.), Aeneis, abridgement in Italian prose by Andrea Lancia (c. 1280-c. 1360). This Florentine notary and Dante commentator wrote various Italian translations or adaptations of classical Latin texts. There are occasionally interlinear glosses, more often marginal notes. Pointing hands.
Provenance: Purchased from the collection of Bernard M. Rosenthal on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
Extent: ff. 44: 296 x 213 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Italian

Genre: Translations
Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment (goatskin);
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Lancia, Andrea, ca. 1280-ca. 1360.
Virgil.
Subject (Topic): Epic poetry, Latin
Literature, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Lancia, Andrea, ca. 1280-ca. 1360
Virgil
Epic poetry, Latin
Literature, Medieval > Translations
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Italy > 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Virgil, Aeneis. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.