Miscellany

Description

Title: Miscellany
Published / Created: [between 1600 and 1700]
Publication Place: Mostly Central or Southern Italy
Abstract: Manuscript on paper (various sizes and qualities) of a collection of notes and documents mostly related to Italian cities, dioceses and abbeys; Eastern churches and monasticism; and Central Europe; but containing also saints' lives, poetry, letters, archaeological treatises, etc
Description: In Latin, Italian, French and Greek.
Script: many different hands writing Humanistica Cursiva or Gothica Cursiva, sometimes in careful, but mostly in rapid execution.
A few pen and ink drawings.
Composed of numerous detached pieces (numbered and occasionally annotated by an English hand (1890-1900)), in various hands, some original, but mostly copies of documents and manuscript books, and often almost illegible due to the use of acid ink or the cursivity of the script. Many blank pages; many (blank?) leaves got lost after the codex was foliated.
Binding: 18th century (?). Quarter parchment over pasteboard, the covers in marbled paper. Flat spine gold-tooled, with red leather label carrying gold-tooled inscription "MANUSCRIT. / 16. SIÈCLE".
Provenance: Collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps (MS 25554). Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: Beinecke MS 720
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Genre: Translations
Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 17th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Italy
Subject (Topic): Eastern churches
Literature, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
Monasticism and religious orders
Description and travel
Subjects: Eastern churches
Literature, Medieval > Translations
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Monasticism and religious orders
Italy > Description and travel > Early works to 1800
Italy > 17th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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