Sposalitio di Sancta Catherina vergine e martire

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Title: Sposalitio di Sancta Catherina vergine e martire
Published / Created: 1559.
Publication Place: Florence
Abstract: Manuscript on paper of a play in five acts, written for an audience of nuns by a Dominican friar. The only surviving manuscript containing this text
Description: In Italian.
Script: the original text copied by a single hand, writing Humanistica Cursiva. The changes and additions are written in Humanistica Cursiva Currens under Gothic influence.
Play (Commedia) in five acts, in verse, about S. Catherine of Alexandria, written for an audience of nuns (see the frequent allusions to Christ as “sposo celeste”) by a Dominican friar whose initials are F.N.F. There are many important changes and additions by a slightly later, rapid hand.
Binding: early paper binding.
Provenance: Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
Extent: ff. 42: 210 x 150 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Italian

Genre: Manuscripts, Renaissance Italy 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: paper;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Catherine, of Alexandria, Saint.
Subject (Topic): Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Catherine, of Alexandria, Saint
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Italy > 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Sposalitio di Sancta Catherina Vergine e Martire. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.