Excerpts from Plato and Pliny the Elder, etc

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Title: Excerpts from Plato and Pliny the Elder, etc
Creator: Plato
Published / Created: 1464.
Publication Place: Italy (Florence ?)
Abstract: Manuscript on paper of 1) Excerpts from Plato (427-347 B.C.), De legibus, in Latin translation. 2) Excerpts from Plinius Maior (23-79), Naturalis historia, C. Mayhoff, ed. (Teubner, 1906 ff.), Books 27-37. With an additional text: Italian remedy for healing ringworm
Description: In Latin.
Script: Artt. 1-3 are copied by one hand writing Humanistica Cursiva Libraria with relatively many abbreviations. The numerous marginal lemmata, headings or Nota-marks are, apart from a few later additions, by the same hand. Artt. 4-5 are by two different 16th century Italian hands.
Watermark: a horn (var. Briquet 7686). An unknown number of bifolios is missing between ff. 28 and 29.
Artt. 1-3: a few red or pale red headings; Paragraph marks, capitals and stroking of the majuscules in the same colour. The running headlines indicate the number of the Dialogue or Book excerpted on the page below; they are in black in art. 1, in red (e.g. "Li.// 28") in artt. 2-3. Artt. 4-5 are undecorated.
Binding: Nineteenth century (?). Mottled beige paper over pasteboard.
Provenance: Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
Extent: ff. i + 56 + i : 290 x 115 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: paper ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Plato.
Pliny, the Elder.
Subject (Topic): Classical literature
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Plato
Pliny, the Elder
Classical literature
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Excerpts from Plato and Pliny the Elder. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.