Historia gentis Longobardorum, etc

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Title: Historia gentis Longobardorum, etc
Creator: Paul, the Deacon, approximately 720-799?
Contributor: Palladius, Bishop of Aspuna, -approximately 430.
Published / Created: [between 1450 and 1500]
Publication Place: Switzerland or Northern Italy
Abstract: Manuscript on paper of 1) Paul the Deacon, Historia gentis Longobardorum. 2) Palladius of Helenopolis, Liber de moribus Brachmanorum, translated into Latin
Description: In Latin.
Watermarks: similar to Piccard Ochsenkopf I.731-35.
Script: Written in a cursive minuscule script, above top line; the first words of each chapter in large gothic bookhand.
One initial, divided red and blue, 5-line, with red penwork flourishes, f. 1r; the initial may have been retouched by a contemporary hand. Plain red initials throughout; spaces for rubrics left unfilled, except for those at beginning of each book. Running headlines in red. Guide letters for decorator.
Binding: Nineteenth century, Germany. Quires cut in for sewing. Rigid vellum case with a red, gold-tooled label: "P. Diacon. De Gest. langobar". Early title in ink on fore edge: "De Gest. Longobardo".
Provenance: Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1958 by Thomas E. Marston.
Extent: ff. ii + 90 + ii : 310 x 215 (188 x 132) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Translations
Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 15th century
Manuscripts, Medieval Switzerland 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: paper ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
India
Subject (Name): Paul, the Deacon, approximately 720-799?
Subject (Topic): Literature, Medieval
Lombards
Manuscripts, Medieval
History
Subjects: Paul, the Deacon, approximately 720-799?
Literature, Medieval > Translations
Lombards
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
India > History > 324 B.C.-1000 A.D.
Italy > 15th century
Switzerland > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Paul the Deacon, Historia Gentis Longobardorum, etc. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.