Macer Floridus
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Description
- Title
- Macer Floridus
- Creator
- Macer, Floridus
- Published / Created
- [between 1150 and 1200; 1450 and 1500]
- Publication Place
- Germany; Italy
- Abstract
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Manuscript on parchment, composed in two parts of different age and origin, of 1) Macer Floridus (Odo of Meung, c. 1070), De viribus herbarum. 2) Fragments of a Missal: (a) Third Sunday of Lent. (b) Saturday after the first Sunday of Lent. (c) Second Sunday of Lent
- Description
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In Latin.
Script: Part I (ff. 1-10): copied by one hand writing Praegothica with wide distance between the lines. Part II (ff. 11-22): copied by one hand in Gothico-Humanistica Libraria.
Part I: red chapter headings in larger script written at the right of the text. Red paragraph marks. Red heightening of majuscules on ff. 1r and 10 v only. 2-line (exceptionally 1- or 3-line) early flourished initials in red with red flourishing (red filling on f. 10r). 5-line red, blue and white initial with strapwork decoration on f. 1r. Part II: chapter headings in red, centered. Red 2-line plain initials (Capitalis).
Part II adapted to the size of Part I by pasting strips of parchment to the bottom of the bifolios. The five outer bifolios (ff. 11-15 and 18-22) are palimpsest: leaves from a manuscript in two columns, the text transversal to the textus rescriptus; the inner bifolium (ff. 16-17) is of bad quality; the upper corners of ff. 11 and 22 are missing with loss of text and have been repaired with blank parchment.
Binding: 20th century. Wooden boards and brown calf spine. Endleaves are fragments of a Missal (Italy, 15th century). - Provenance
- Purchased 1996 from Bernard Quaritch, London, on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
- Extent
- ff. 22 : 200 or 175 x 125 mm.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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Latin
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Beinecke MS 823
- Related Resource Online
- View a detailed description.
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Manuscripts, Medieval Germany 12th century
Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library - Material
- parchment ;
- Resource Type
- unspecified
- Subject (Geographic)
-
Connecticut
New Haven. - Subject (Name)
- Macer, Floridus.
- Subject (Topic)
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Herbs
Manuscripts, Medieval
Science, Medieval - Subjects
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Macer, Floridus
Herbs
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Science, Medieval
Germany > 12th century
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
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- Citation
- Macer Floridus. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9874166
- Object ID (OID)
- 10965985
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