Sermonum liber
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Description
- Title
- Sermonum liber
- Creator
- Augurelli, Giovanni Aurelio, approximately 1456-1524?
- Published / Created
- 28 January 1495.
- Publication Place
- North Italy (Treviso?)
- Abstract
-
Manuscript (holograph?) on parchment of nineteen poems, dedicated to Niccolo Franco, Bishop of Treviso (d. 1499), and other members of the literary circle in Treviso with whom Giovanni Aurelio Augurello (ca. 1440-1524) was actively connected as a famous private teacher and distinguished poet from 1491 until his death. Only the seventeenth poem of MS 22 is directly related to alchemy, but it is above all a literary exercise
- Description
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In Latin and Greek.
Script: Written by a single scribe in a good humanistic cursive.
Large capital letters, mostly plain, at the beginning (written in the left margins) and dedication of each poem in pale red. On f. 1v (blank on the recto) is a drawing in delicate wash of a tree, lower left, against the base of which leans a small book in a red cover; extending upward from the treetop to the sun, at extreme top right, is the inscription in red capitals: "VTCVNQ[VE] TIBI." On f. 2r, opposite the dedicatory drawing just described, there is further decoration in the same delicate wash colors: a leaf in the margin beside the dedication to Niccolo Franco, Bishop of Treviso; light tracery ornament surrounding the capital "F" in the left margin at the beginning of the first poem; and Franco's arms, surmounted by the Bishop's mitre and surrounded by green twigs tied with red ribbons, in the lower margin. At the end of the manuscript, beneath the colophon, there is a further drawing and inscription in green wash, referable to the final poem: a small Roman sarcophagus with a little book in red binding lying atop it, and the inscription "POSTERITATI SACRUM" below.
Binding: Apparently original. Blind-stamped red goatskin (now darkened), repaired, sides paneled with blind fillets, two rows of differing knotwork tools, four clasps and catches now lacking, two asterisk-headed brass nails for each clasp remaining on upper cover, plain edges, modern leather label on backstrip with three faintly raised original bands. - Provenance
- Denis Duveen, acquired from Dr. Ernst Weil (bookseller), London, 1949; Mellon MS 5, acquired with the Duveen collection. Gift of Paul and Mary Mellon, 1965.
- Extent
- ff. 36 : 225 x 135 (155 x 78) mm.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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Latin
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Mellon MS 22
- Related Resource Online
- View a detailed description.
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library - Material
- parchment ;
- Resource Type
- unspecified
- Subject (Geographic)
-
Connecticut
New Haven.
Treviso (Italy) - Subject (Name)
- Augurelli, Giovanni Aurelio, approximately 1456-1524?
- Subject (Topic)
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Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Latin poetry, Medieval and modern
Manuscripts, Medieval - Subjects
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Augurelli, Giovanni Aurelio, approximately 1456-1524?
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Latin poetry, Medieval and modern
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Treviso (Italy)
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Duveen, Denis I. > Ownership
Mellon, Paul > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
- Joannes Aurelius Augurellus, Sermonum Liber. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9878340
- Object ID (OID)
- 15472946
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