Mystical treatise
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Description
- Title
- Mystical treatise
- Published / Created
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Publication Place
- Italy
- Abstract
-
Manuscript on paper of an unidentified mystical treatise
- Description
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In Italian.
Script: Copied by one hand in Humanistica Cursiva Libraria under Gothic influence. The scribe often writes the last letters of the final word at the bottom line in vertical sense. Starting f. 40r the descenders at the bottom line frequently have enormous fanciful extensions (loop-shaped, in the shape of a bird [ff. 54v, 65r], etc.).
Alternately red and blue paragraph marks. Headings in red. Gothic plain initials in red or blue, normally 3 lines, sometimes 2 or 4 lines. The first page, now missing except for part of a stub, had a border decoration in ink.
Numerous pages have been torn out after f. 84. The top inner section of f. 1 is missing. All pages water-stained, seriously affecting the lisibility of the text.
Binding: Original binding in bad condition, made at the time the manuscript had more than twice the thickness it has now: undecorated brown pigskin over wooden boards. Bound on three double cords. The binding was strengthened by means of strips of textile, now loose. These and the leather turn-ins show the offset of a page of a 12th-century Latin manuscript from Italy. Remnants of two clasps attached to the front cover, with two trapezoid brass catches on the rear cover. With the manuscript is kept a heart-shaped parchment bookmark of undetermined age, the sides respectively inscribed with “I” and “II” - Provenance
- Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
- Extent
- ff. 84 : 145 x 115 mm.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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Italian
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Beinecke MS 771
- Related Resource Online
- View a detailed description.
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library - Material
- paper ;
- Resource Type
- unspecified
- Subject (Geographic)
-
Connecticut
New Haven. - Subject (Topic)
-
Italian literature
Manuscripts, Medieval
Mysticism - Subjects
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Italian literature > 15th century
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Mysticism
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
- Mystical Treatise. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9868630
- Object ID (OID)
- 10932376
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