Doctrinale

Description

Title: Doctrinale
Creator: Alexander, de Villa Dei
Published / Created: [between 1400 and 1425]
Publication Place: Northern Italy
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of Alexander of Villa Dei, Doctrinale
Description: In Latin.
Script: Written in round gothic bookhand by a single scribe, below top line.
One historiated initial, f. 1r, 6-line, pink, red, and green with white filigree on gold ground thinly edged in black, with a half-length portrait of a teacher in red robes and a red cap holding a book, against a blue ground with white filigree. In the lower margin arms of the Pesaro family of Venice (per pale indented or and azure), framed by scrolling acanthus, green, red, blue, and pink. Plain initials and paragraph marks both alternate blue and red. Headings in red.
Binding: Nineteenth century, England. Light brown leather, gold-tooled. Gilt edges. Rebacked. Title on spine: "Alexander de Villa Dei Doctrinale. MS: In Memb". Bound for Henry Drury by C. Lewis in 1820.
Provenance: Purchased from Maggs Bros., London in 1956 by L. C. Witten, who sold it in the same year to Thomas E. Marston.
Extent: ff. i + i + 54 + i + i : 264 x 184 (162 x 95) 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: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Alexander, de Villa Dei.
Subject (Topic): Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Latin language
Grammar
Latin poetry, Medieval and modern
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Alexander, de Villa Dei
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Latin language > Grammar
Latin poetry, Medieval and modern
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Alexander of Villa Dei, Doctrinale. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.