Poetria nova, [circa 1400].

Description

Title: Poetria nova, [circa 1400].
Creator: Geoffrey, of Vinsauf, fl. 1200
Abstract: Manuscript, on paper, in Gothic bookhand by several different scribes, produced in Northern Italy around 1400
Description: In Latin.
Decoration: large initial P, characteristic of late fourteenth or early fifteenth century Northern Italian initials (f. 1r); two heads, one of a bishop (f. 43r); rubricated initials at section headings.
Inscription: "Liber guidini et jacobi de piasiis."
Inscription: "Liber elisey de piasiis; Puluis ut inuentum sic desunt septra potentum."
Watermark: similar to Bricquet 4001 (Venice, 1401) and 4002 (Bergamo, 1402).
Lines 2081-98 of the printed text, a section missing from many versions, appear at the end (after line 2116).
Binding: modern quarter calf binding.
Provenance: Purchased for the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection.
Extent: 1 28 cm. x 21 cm. vol. (43 ff.) ;
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Name): Geoffrey, of Vinsauf, fl. 1200.
Subject (Topic): Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern).
Rhetoric, Medieval
Subjects: Geoffrey, of Vinsauf, fl. 1200
Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern).
Rhetoric, Medieval
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Geoffrey of Vinsauf, Poetria Nova. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.