Summa grammaticae

Description

Title: Summa grammaticae
Published / Created: [between 1350 and 1400]
Publication Place: Northern Italy
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of Summa grammaticae
Description: In Latin.
Script: copied by one hand in Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria.
Alternately red and blue paragraph marks. Alternately red and blue 2- or 3-line (sometimes 4- or 5-line) flourished initials, half inset, with penwork in the opposite colours extending in the left margin or in the intercolumnar space. On f. 1r at the beginning of the text a 9-line littera duplex with penwork, badly rubbed. Guide letters.
The leaves are badly soiled and rubbed, making reading often difficult or impossible (especially f. 1, which is waterstained and missing the lower corner).
Binding: undecorated cardboard cover, sewn on three leather thongs.
Provenance: Collection of Bernard M. Rosenthal, Booksellers, Berkeley, CA (MS 192). Purchased from him on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
Extent: ff. 46 : 240 x 170 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Topic): Latin language
Grammar
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Latin language > Grammar
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Italy > 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Summa Grammaticae. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.