Polistorio

Description

Title: Polistorio
Creator: da Ferrara, Niccolò.
Published / Created: [ca 1479]
Publication Place: Bologna, Italy
Abstract: Manuscript on paper of Niccolò da Ferrara(?), Polistorio (books I and II), with Table of Contents and indices
Description: In Italian.
Script: Copied by a single hand in Gothico-Humanistica Textualis Libraria.
Decoration: Red headings; red or blue paragraph marks; red or blue 2- or 3-line initials; gold 4-7-line initials; large 11-13-line faceted initials, decorated with flowers, animals, etc. in a quadrangular trompe-l'oeil frame.
Binding: 19th century brown leather and red paper over cardboard; spine with 6 raised bands and gold-tooled inscription "POLISTORIO" in the second compartment.
Provenance: Ex libris Rangoni Macchiavelli family; ex libris Sergio Colombi (1887-1972); purchased in 2007 on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
Extent: ff. i + 188 + i : 440 x 295 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Italian

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: Paper ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): da Ferrara, Niccolò.
Subject (Topic): Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: da Ferrara, Niccolò.
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Rangoni Macchiavelli Family > Bookplate
Colombi, Sergio, 1887-1972 > Bookplate

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Citation: Niccolò da Ferrara, Polistorio. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.