Quaestiones de observantia quadragesimali

Description

Title: Quaestiones de observantia quadragesimali
Creator: Gigli, Giovanni, d. 1498
Published / Created: [ca. 1500]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Manuscript on paper of Giovanni Gigli, Quaestiones de observantia quadragesimali
Description: In Latin.
Watermarks: similar to Heawood 2473, 2475.
Script: Written by a single scribe in English secretary script.
Large crude initials, in red, at beginning of each section of text, accompanied by simple penwork designs in brown ink; paragraph marks in red.
Binding: 16th-17th centuries. Original sewing on four double, tawed cords. No endbands. Cords laced through slanted round holes in oak boards. Covered in dark brown calf with traces of two sets of strap and pin fastenings, not contemporaneous, going from upper to lower board and vice versa. An outer covering of 19th century leather and marbled paper has been added. Sewing breaking. Covers lined with a parchment fragment of a Missal (England, 13th century); (front pastedown:) portions of the Gospel and the Secret for the Annunciation (25 March); (back pastedown:) portions from the Masses for the Nativity of John the Baptist (24 June), for John and Paul Martyrs (26 June), and for the Vigil of Apostles Peter and Paul (28 June).
Provenance: Belonged to John Wildgoose. Purchased by the Yale University Library in 1896.
Extent: ff. ii + 34 : 300 x 211 (198 x 152) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval England 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: paper ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Gigli, Giovanni, d. 1498.
Subject (Topic): Lent
Manuscripts, Medieval
Missals
Theology, Doctrinal
Subjects: Gigli, Giovanni, d. 1498
Lent
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Missals
Theology, Doctrinal > Early works to 1800
England > 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Giovanni Gigli, Quaestiones de Observantia Quadragesimali. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.