Theological and moral florilegium
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10965983
Description
- Title
- Theological and moral florilegium
- Published / Created
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Publication Place
- Northern Italy
- Abstract
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Manuscript on paper of a huge collection of mostly short quotations, arranged under more than one hundred headings, with other texts
- Description
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In Latin, partly in Italian.
Script: mainly copied by one hand writing a small Gothico-Humanistica with single-compartment a; a few additions and marginal notes by a contemporary hand. Art. 3 is copied in an unusual linear Humanistica Textualis close to Cursiva, marked by numerous loops.
Headings in red. Underlining in black of the authorities and works quoted. A few plain initials in red. In the margins pointing hands (sometimes with human faces in the calligraphic loops) and arrows which have the same function.
The manuscript includes short treatises, exempla, verses and prayers. With two fragments 1) of a Latin theological treatise on parchment, ca. 1300. 2) of a Latin philosophical treatise, probably a commentary on Aristotle's De caelo et mundo.
Binding: 16th century. Brown leather over pasteboard, sewn on three split leather thongs. The covers are blind-tooled with triple fillets and a frame of juxtaposed quadrangular tools with botanical motif. Remnants of one clasp attached to the front cover, with an engraved brass catch on the rear cover. In the center of the front cover a small paper roundel with a contemporary woodcut of one of the Magi; on the rear cover a rectangular contemporary woodcut on paper representing the Flagellation. The spine is reinforced by a piece of paper, on which the original title in ink has been replaced by “Sententiẹ / sacrẹ / et prophanẹ / Manuscript** / Sẹculi XV” (16th century). On the front detached pastedown r: “Opuscula varia” (16th century). Front pastedown is a fragment of a theological treatise, ca. 1300; rear pastedown, fragment of a philosophical treatise, probably a commentary on Aristotle's De caelo et mundo, both on parchment and orginally from the same manuscript. - Provenance
- Purchased 1996 from Bernard Quaritch, London.
- Extent
- ff. 144 : 160 x 105 mm.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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Latin
Italian
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Beinecke MS 821
- 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)
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Connecticut
New Haven. - Subject (Topic)
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Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Manuscripts, Medieval - Subjects
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Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
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- Access
- Public
- Rights
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- Citation
- Theological and Moral Florilegium. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9873685
- Object ID (OID)
- 10965983
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