De compendiosa doctrina
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11403196
Description
- Title
- De compendiosa doctrina
- Creator
- Nonius Marcellus, active 4th century
- Published / Created
- [ca. 1445-50]
- Publication Place
- Florence
- Abstract
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Manuscript on parchment of Nonius Marcellus, De compendiosa doctrina
- Description
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In Latin.
Script: Written in a small upright humanistic cursive script by a single scribe who began copying the text with a single line of majuscules; written below top line.
Folio 1r with partial border in upper and inner margins; white vine-stem ornament on blue, green and pink ground with grey and pale yellow dots, terminating in penwork with gold balls. At the left upper corner vine-stem ornament is inhabited by a red-winged putto being attacked by a bird. Historiated initial, 9-line, gold, against a blue, green and pink ground with white vine-stem ornament, and a medallion with the profile of a man, dressed in a red and green cap and red robes against blue ground. Numerous small initials, 4-line, gold on blue, pink and green or blue and pink rectangular grounds with white and pale yellow filigree.
Binding: Twentieth century, after 1926, England. Dark green pigskin, gold-tooled with the arms of C. H. St. John Hornby on the upper side; title on spine. Edges gilt. - Provenance
- Purchased from Davis and Orioli in 1955 by L. C. Witten, who sold it that same year to Thomas E. Marston.
- Extent
- ff. iii + 130 + iii : 283 x 195 (179 x 115) mm.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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Latin
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Marston MS 55
- Related Resource Online
- View a detailed description.
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library - Material
- parchment ;
- Resource Type
- unspecified
- Subject (Geographic)
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Connecticut
New Haven. - Subject (Name)
- Nonius Marcellus, active 4th century.
- Subject (Topic)
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Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
Theology - Subjects
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Nonius Marcellus, active 4th century
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Theology > Early works to 1800
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
- Nonius Marcellus, De Compendiosa Doctrina. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9807127
- Object ID (OID)
- 11403196
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