Epitome rei militaris

Description

Title: Epitome rei militaris
Creator: Vegetius Renatus, Flavius
Published / Created: [between 1450 and 1500]
Publication Place: Flanders or Northern France
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of Vegetius, Epitome rei militaris
Description: In Latin.
Script: Written in small gothic bookhand by a single scribe.
Three illuminated initials, 3-line, at the beginning of the Prologue (f. 1v), Bk. 3 (f. 29v), Bk. 4 (f. 58r), blue or mauve with white filigree against gold ground thinly edged in black. Initials filled with stylized leaves, blue and mauve with white filigree. Black inkspray with spiky gold leaves and small blossoms in pink or blue extend into the margins to form partial borders. Numerous small initials, 2-line, gold, on mauve and blue ground with white filigree. Running headlines in red and blue; headings in red. Paragraph marks alternate red and blue. Initials stroked with pale yellow.
Binding: Eighteenth century, England or France. Bound in olive green goatskin gold-tooled with a "broken cable" border and decorated edges. Probably bound by Richard Wier (active in London and Toulouse to ca. 1792). Decorated edges. Title on spine: "Vegetius De Viris Il".
Provenance: Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1953 by Thomas E. Marston.
Extent: ff. iii + i + 74 + i + iii : 146 x 98 (86 x 69) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval France 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Vegetius Renatus, Flavius.
Subject (Topic): Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Latin literature
Manuscripts, Medieval
Military art and science
Subjects: Vegetius Renatus, Flavius
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Latin literature
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Military art and science > Early works to 1800
France > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Vegetius, Epitome rei militaris. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.