Ascetic treatises
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Description
- Title
- Ascetic treatises
- Published / Created
- [between 1490 and 1500]
- Publication Place
- France (Paris?)
- Abstract
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Manuscript on parchment of ascetic treatises
- Description
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In Latin.
Script: copied by one hand in small Gothica Hybrida Formata (Bastarda), with a tendency towards lengthening and making loops to the ascenders on the top line.
Headings in red. The manuscript is richly decorated in a uniform style with paragraph marks, line fillers, 1-line versals and 2-5-line initials in liquid gold on a blue or red ground decorated with foliage in liquid gold. On f. 1r arch-topped half-page miniature in the style of Jean Bourdichon, as wide as the writing area, above 12 lines of text, showing King David praying in a landscape. Full paneled border, the panels alternately with uncoloured background and filled with acanths, or with liquid gold background and filled with flowers or fruit; one “acanth” panel in the outer border and two similar panels in the lower one contain each a hybrid animal, one of these wearing a hat.
The manuscript contains: 1) Petrus de Alliaco (Pierre d'Ailly, 1350-1420), Meditationes super septem Psalmos paenitentiales. 2) Table of Contents. 3) Lotharius Count of Segni (1160-1216, 1198-1216 pope as Innocentius III), De miseria humanae conditionis. 4) Ps.-Bernardus Claraevallensis (Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux), De interiori homine (Meditationes). 5) Iacobus de Gruytrode (c. 1400-1475), Speculum aureum animae peccatricis, also attributed to Iacobus de Iuterbog (1381-1465), Dionysius Carthusianus (Dionysius de Ryckel, 1402/1403-1471) and Gerardus de Schiedam (d. 1442).c
Binding: 19th century. Red silk over thin wooden boards. Gilt edges. - Provenance
- Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
- Extent
- ff. i + 103 + i : 200 x 140 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 830
- Related Resource Online
- View a detailed description.
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Manuscripts, Medieval France 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library - Material
- parchment ;
- Resource Type
- unspecified
- Subject (Geographic)
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Connecticut
New Haven. - Subject (Name)
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Ailly, Pierre d', 1350-1420?
Innocent III, Pope, 1160 or 1161-1216.
Jacobus, de Gruytrode, active 1440-1475. - Subject (Topic)
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Asceticism
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
Repentance
Christianity - Subjects
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Ailly, Pierre d', 1350-1420?
Innocent III, Pope, 1160 or 1161-1216
Jacobus, de Gruytrode, active 1440-1475
Asceticism
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Repentance > Christianity
France > 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
- Ascetic Treatises. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9874393
- Object ID (OID)
- 10984292
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