Oratio

Description

Title: Oratio
Creator: Naldi, Naldo, 1439-approximately 1520
Published / Created: [ca. 1476-78]
Publication Place: Florence
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of Naldo Naldi, Oratio ad Andream Vendraminium (doge of Venice 1476-78).
Description: In Latin.
Script: Written in a round humanistic hand, below top line, by the poet Tommaso Baldinotti of Pistoia (1451-1511).
One illuminated initial of average quality, 3-line, gold against blue ground with gold filigree. Filled with half-length portrait of the doge dressed in red robes and a red hat against green ground. Dedication, 5 lines, in alternating lines of gold and blue majuscules followed by the first three lines of text in red majuscules.
The margins of f. 1 have been trimmed away from the written space, which was then mounted on another piece of parchment conjugate to the front pastedown; hence, any marginal decoration, which may have included a coat of arms, is now lost.
Binding: 15th-16th centuries, Italy. Sewn on three tawed skin, slit straps laced through tunnels in the edge of beech boards to channels on the outside and nailed. Gilt edges. Fragment of head endband. The spine is lined with tawed skin between supports. Covered in red silk with traces of four fastenings on each board.
Provenance: Purchased from H. P. Kraus in 1957 by Thomas E. Marston.
Extent: ff. 19 : 210 x 127 (122 x 57) 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.
Venice (Italy)
Subject (Name): Naldi, Naldo, 1439-approximately 1520.
Vendramin, Andrea, 1392-1478.
Subject (Topic): Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin (Medieval and modern)
Subjects: Naldi, Naldo, 1439-approximately 1520
Vendramin, Andrea, 1392-1478
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin (Medieval and modern)
Venice (Italy)
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Naldo Naldi, Oratio. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.