Carmina

Description

Title: Carmina
Creator: Quintus Aemilianus Cimbriacus
Contributor: Quintus Aemilianus Cimbriacus
Published / Created: [ca. 1493-97]
Publication Place: Northeastern Italy,
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of 1) The author, Quintus Aemilianus Cimbriacus (1449-1499) of Vicenza, speaking to his book of poetry, 6 lines. 2) 28-line encomium dedicated to Niccolo Donati, Patriarch of Aquileia, 1493-97. 3) Rhapsodia I. 4-7) Rhapsodia I-V. 8) De mysteriis christianis. 9-10) Poems to Angelus Padavinus.
Description: Binding: Date?, Italy. Tacketed to a limp vellum wrapper made from a parchment document: Agostino Barbarigo, doge of Venice (1486-1501), writes on behalf of the secretary Joannes B[remainder of name missing due to hole in parchment], dated Venice, 5 May 14[8?]8. Filing notes on upper cover. Title in majuscules on upper cover: "Quintii Haemiliani Cimbriaci Vti [for Vincentinus?]".
Half-page coat of arms (argent [oxidized], a chief with 3 roses gules above 2 bars gules; crest: bishop's mitre surmounted by gold cross) enclosed by a wreath with flowers and fruit and four ribbons, f. 1v. Plain gold majuscules outlined in black, 4- to 2-line, mark beginning of arts. 2-8; headings for each poem in black epigraphic square capitals.
Script: Written in a well-formed upright humanistic bookhand.
Extent: ff. 16 : parchment ; 190 x 134 (114 x 81) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Format: text
Genre: Manuscripts
Material: parchment
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Name): Quintus Aemilianus Cimbriacus
Subject (Topic): Christian poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Quintus Aemilianus Cimbriacus, Carmina. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Shailor, B. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Marston MS 161.

Orbis Record: 9811362
Object ID (OID): 10965988
More Information: https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/pre1600.mars161.htm