Elegantiolae, etc

Description

Title: Elegantiolae, etc
Creator: Dati, Agostino, 1420-1478
Contributor: Vergerio, Pietro Paolo, 1370-1444.
Published / Created: [between 1450 and 1500]
Publication Place: Northeastern Italy
Abstract: Manuscript on paper, composed of two distinct parts. Part I: Agostino Dati (1420-78), Elegantiolae. Part II: Pier Paolo Vergerio, De ingenuis moribus
Description: In Latin.
Watermarks, in gutter: Part I: similar in design to Piccard Waage VII.261-66 and similar to Piccard Werkzeug IV.1162-63; unidentified crossed arrows and balance within a circle. Part II: similar to Piccard Waage V.378 and similar in design to Piccard Waage VII.261-66; unidentified bull's head and same unidentified balance in a circle as in Part I.
Script: Part I (ff. 1-48): Written in humanistic bookhand, below top line. Part II (ff. 49-77): Written by multiple scribes in different styles of humanistic bookhand.
Part I: 3-line red initial, f. 1r, with penwork designs extending length of inner margin. Headings, marginalia, paragraph marks, initial strokes, in red, through f. 39r only.
Binding: Eighteenth century, France. Tan, mottled sheepskin; gold-tooled spine and red label with title: "Passio/ M. S. XIII. S".
Provenance: Collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps (no. 1010). Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1955 by Thomas E. Marston.
Extent: ff. i + 77 + i : 203 x 142 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: paper ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Dati, Agostino, 1420-1478.
Subject (Topic): Education, Humanistic
Latin letters, Medieval and modern
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Dati, Agostino, 1420-1478
Education, Humanistic
Latin letters, Medieval and modern
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Agostino Dati, Elegantiolae, etc. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.