Epitoma Donati in Terentium, etc
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Description
- Title
- Epitoma Donati in Terentium, etc
- Creator
- Curlo, Giacomo
- Contributor
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Griffolini, Francesco, 1418-1483.
Phalaris, Tyrant of Agrigentum, 6th cent. B.C.
Pliny, the Younger.
Plutarch. - Published / Created
- [ca. 1450]
- Publication Place
- Southern Italy
- Abstract
-
Manuscript on paper (slightly polished) of 1) Giacomo Curlo, Preface addressed to Ferdinand I of Naples. 2) Giacomo Curlo, Epitoma Donati in Terentium. 3) Antonio Cassarino, Preface addressed to Giacomo Curlo. 4) Plutarch, Apophthegmata, Latin translation by Antonio Cassarino. 5) Phalaris, Epistolae, translated by Francesco Griffolini of Arezzo and dedicated to Malatesta Novella of Cesena. 6) Phalaris, four additional Epistolae, translated into Latin by Francesco Griffolini of Arezzo and dedicated to King Alfonso I of Naples. 7) Pliny, Epistolae I.1-III.15.
- Description
-
In Latin.
Watermarks: ff. 1-112, similar to Briquet Lettre R 8941; ff. 113-160 and 209-256, similar to Briquet Echelle 5904, 5908; ff. 161-208, 257-265, similar to Piccard Kreuz II.616, 619, 622.
Script: Written in an unusual style of loose and sloping humanistic script with cursive features; angular, little shading of letters, well spaced.
Plain lumpy initials, 3- to 2-line, alternate blue and red. Headings and paragraph marks in red.
Binding: Fifteenth century, Spain (?). Original wound sewing on four tawed skin, slit straps laced through tunnels in the edges of wooden boards to channels on the outside and pegged. Yellow edges. The beaded chevron endbands are sewn with red and yellow thread on tawed skin cores laid in grooves in the boards. Covered in brown sheepskin with the surface mostly worn off; decorated with concentric frames, the central panel and one frame filled in with square goat (?) and flower tools standing on a point. Title in ink on a paper label, now mostly wanting. Four truncated diamond-shaped catches on the lower board have a raised design of the Virgin and child and a flower. - Provenance
- Acquired from C. A. Stonehill in 1954 by Thomas E. Marston.
- Extent
- ff. ii + 265 : 293 x 212 (176 x 100) mm.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
-
Latin
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Marston MS 51
- Related Resource Online
- View a detailed description.
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Translations
Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library - Material
- paper ;
- Resource Type
- unspecified
- Subject (Geographic)
-
Connecticut
New Haven. - Subject (Name)
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Donatus, Aelius.
Alfonso V, King of Aragon, 1396-1458.
Curlo, Giacomo.
Ferdinand I, King of Naples, 1423-1494.
Terence. - Subject (Topic)
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Latin letters
Literature, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
Scholia - Subjects
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Donatus, Aelius
Alfonso V, King of Aragon, 1396-1458
Curlo, Giacomo
Ferdinand I, King of Naples, 1423-1494
Terence
Latin letters
Literature, Medieval > Translations
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Scholia
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
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- Citation
- Giacomo Curlo, Epitoma Donati in Terentium, etc. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9807046
- Object ID (OID)
- 11403195
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