Historia Hierosolymitana
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Description
- Title
- Historia Hierosolymitana
- Creator
- Jacques, de Vitry, approximately 1170-1240
- Published / Created
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Publication Place
- Southern Germany or Austria
- Abstract
-
Manuscript on paper of Jacobus de Vitriaco, Historia Hierosolymitana Abbreviata, book 1 (the "Historia Orientalis").
- Description
-
In Latin.
Watermarks: Piccard, Ochsenkopf XII.749, XIII.771, and similar to XI.226.
Script: Written in a well formed hybrida script by a single scribe.
One illuminated intial, f. 1r, 18-line, dark green with stylized foliage in light green with yellow shading against red with gold filigree and gold ground edged dark and light grey. Foliage serifs, blue, green, pink, red, and grey with gold balls and gold accents extending into the upper, inner, and outer margins to form a partial border of attenuated and stylized curling leaves. One flourished initial, 5-line, blue with red penwork, f. 5v. Plain initials alternate red and blue. Headings in red for table and a few chapters; most spaces left unfilled by rubricator.
Binding: Fifteenth century, Southern Germany or Austria. Original wound sewing on three tawed skin, slit straps laced through tunnels in the edges to channels on the outside of flush beech boards and pegged twice. The spine is lined with vellum between supports. Covered in brown calf, blind-tooled with a rope-work flower in a central panel which is divided in three, the upper and lower sections divided into triangles; the whole panel within a rope interlace border. Spine: bands outlined with triple fillets. Two fastenings, now wanting, the lower board cut in to accomodate them. - Provenance
- Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1954 by Thomas E. Marston.
- Extent
- ff. ii + 156 : 215 x 155 (138 x 90) 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 74
- Related Resource Online
- View a detailed description.
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Manuscripts, Medieval Germany 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library - Material
- paper ;
- Resource Type
- unspecified
- Subject (Geographic)
-
Connecticut
New Haven. - Subject (Name)
- Jacques, de Vitry, approximately 1170-1240.
- Subject (Topic)
-
Crusades
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval - Subjects
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Jacques, de Vitry, approximately 1170-1240
Crusades > 13th-15th centuries
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Germany > 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
- Jacobus de Vitriaco, Historia Hierosolymitana. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9807489
- Object ID (OID)
- 11403214
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