Oratio

Description

Title: Oratio
Creator: Filelfo, Francesco, 1398-1481
Published / Created: [ca. 1467]
Publication Place: Milan
Abstract: Manuscript on paper of Francesco Filelfo, Oratio parentalis de divi Francisci Sphortiae Mediolanensium ducis felicitate
Description: In Latin.
Watermarks, much worn, buried in gutter: similar in general design to Piccard, Ochsenkopf VII.955.
Script: Written by a single scribe in a neat sloping humanistic bookhand, above top line.
Space left for initial on f. 1r is unfilled; heading in majuscules, colophon, and marginalia, in pale red.
Binding: Between 1800 and 1810, Italy. Quarter bound in brown mottled calf; mottled yellow and green paper sides; pale brown edges. Gold-tooled spine including title, which is mostly wanting. Spine worm-eaten.
Provenance: Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1949.
Extent: ff. i + 82 + i : 234 x 162 (131 x 72) mm.
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: paper ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Milan (Italy)
Subject (Name): Filelfo, Francesco, 1398-1481.
Subject (Topic): Manuscripts, Medieval
Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin (Medieval and modern)
Subjects: Filelfo, Francesco, 1398-1481
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin (Medieval and modern)
Milan (Italy)
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Francesco Filelfo, Oratio. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.