Libro medesynal delli spariueri

Description

Title: Libro medesynal delli spariueri
Creator: Mago, Agogo
Published / Created: [between 1450 and 1475]
Publication Place: Italy
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of Agogo Mago, Libro medesynal delli spariueri
Description: In Italian.
Script: Written by a single scribe in a neat humanistic bookhand.
One gold initial (f. 1r), 7-line, filled and surrounded by white-vine ornament, on a dark blue, dark red, and dark green ground, with pale yellow dots; extends into inner and upper margins. In lower margin an unidentified coat of arms (or, on a chief azur a parrot vert beaked gules) in a laurel wreath; accompanied by gold balls, hair-sprays, and simple floral patterns. Four initials, 6- to 4-line, in blue with red penwork designs or red with purple; plain capitals alternating red and blue throughout.
Binding: Nineteenth century. Brown goatskin, gold-tooled.
Provenance: Purchased from Quaritch, 26 Oct. 1946, by the Yale Library Associates, with funds contributed by Mrs. Samuel Milbank.
Extent: ff. i + 10 + i : 220 x 142 (155 x 100) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Italian

Genre: Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Mago, Agogo.
Subject (Topic): Game and game-birds
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Italian literature
Manuscripts, Medieval
Medicine
Medicine, Medieval
Subjects: Mago, Agogo
Game and game-birds
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Italian literature > 15th century
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Medicine > Early works to 1800
Medicine, Medieval
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Agogo Mago, Libro Medesynal delli Spariueri. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.