Two letters

Description

Title: Two letters
Creator: Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420
Published / Created: [between 1400 and 1500]
Publication Place: Italy
Abstract: Manuscript on paper of Hieronymus Stridonensis (St. Jerome, 347-420), 1) Epistula 79 (Ad Salvinam). 2) Epistula 123 (Ad Geruchiam).
Description: In Latin.
Script: Copied by one hand in Humanistica Textualis Libraria.
Art. 1 opens with a 4-line Gothic flourished initial in blue with red penwork extending in the inner margin; art. 2 opens with a 4-line Gothic plain initial in red.
Binding: Twentieth century (?). Half binding was removed and the codex restored and rebound in 2000 by the Northeast Document Conservation Center. The new binding is grey cloth over heavy pasteboard. On the spine a new black leather title label with gold-tooled inscription "SANCTI JERONIMI EPISTOLAE MS 788". Among the flyleaves, the two following f. 50 are earlier than the others, which are yellowish machine-made paper belonging to the discarded binding. A modern hand wrote on the last front flyleaf r the title "Sancti Ieronimi epistolae ad Salvinam et Ageruchiam".
Provenance: Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
Extent: ff. v + 8 + vii : 340 x 240 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Digitization Note: Foliated 43-50. Modern binding and binder's blanks not 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.
Subject (Name): Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420.
Subject (Topic): Latin letters
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420
Latin letters
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: St. Jerome, Two Letters. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.