Opera varia, etc

Description

Title: Opera varia, etc
Creator: Albertano, da Brescia, 13th cent
Published / Created: [ca. 1450]
Publication Place: Northern Italy
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of Albertano da Brescia, 1) Liber de doctrina dicendi et tacendi. 2) Liber consolationis et consilii. 3) De amore et dilectione Dei. 4-8) Sermones. 9) De omnibus ordinibus omnium hominum. 10-13) Unidentified moralistic passages. 14) Ps.-Seneca, Proverbia. 15) Seneca, De beneficiis (extracts).
Description: In Latin.
Script: Written by a single scribe in an informal gothic bookhand, below top line.
Initials for major text divisions in red with designs on parchment ground, 18- to 4-line, and some (e.g., f. 28r) with modest penwork designs in red and/or black. Small plain initials, 3- to 1-line, rubrics, and paragraph marks, in red.
Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Quarter bound in tan paper with semi-limp paper sides. Written, in ink, on spine: "De Scientia/ Loquendi/ Tacendi/ Manos" and "Albertani/ Pergomena". On parchment leaves at front and rear: rust stains from five bosses and 2 fore-edge fastenings of an earlier binding.
Provenance: Purchased in 1954 from B. Rosenthal by Thomas E. Martson.
Extent: ff. i + 104 + i : 227 x 156 (155 x 100) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Albertano, da Brescia, 13th cent.
Subject (Topic): Consolation
Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Didactic literature, Latin
Manuscripts, Medieval
Sermons
Sermons, Latin
Theology
Subjects: Albertano, da Brescia, 13th cent
Consolation > Early works to 1800
Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Didactic literature, Latin
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Sermons > Early works to 1800
Sermons, Latin
Theology > Early works to 1800
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Albertano da Brescia, Opera Varia, etc. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.