Peregrina historia and Grammaticon

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Title: Peregrina historia and Grammaticon
Creator: Decembrio, Pier Candido, 1399-1477
Published / Created: [ca. 1450]
Publication Place: Italy
Abstract: Manuscript on paper of Pier Candido Decembrio (Petrus Candidus Decembrius, 1392/1399-1477), 1) Peregrina historia. 2) Grammaticon, a Latin grammar in two Books, dedicated to the Milanese lawyer Guarniero Castiglione
Description: In Latin.
Watermark: var. Briquet 6654 (?).
Script: Copied by one hand in Humanistica Cursiva Libraria under some Gothic influence (occasionally uncial d).
Pale red headings and explicit formulas. The scribe wrote guide-letters but the initials (height: 2 lines) are wanting.
Binding: Fifteenth century. Italian brown morocco over wooden boards bevelled at the inside, blind-tooled with rope interlace and other tools, with some gold. Remnants of two brass clasps attached to the rear cover. Rebacked. On the spine a paper label with the handwritten title "Historia di Publio [sic] Candido". Parchment pastedowns. On the yellow-coloured fore-edge the title "P. Candid*" is inscribed.
Provenance: Purchased from Bernard M. Rosenthal, San Francisco, in August 1976, on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
Extent: ff. i + i + 70 + ii : 220 x 145 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: paper ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Decembrio, Pier Candido, 1399-1477.
Subject (Topic): Cosmography
Grammar, Comparative and general
Latin literature, Medieval and modern
Manuscripts, Medieval
Language and languages
Grammars
Subjects: Decembrio, Pier Candido, 1399-1477
Cosmography > Early works to 1800
Grammar, Comparative and general
Grammar, Comparative and general > Early works to 1800
Latin literature, Medieval and modern
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Language and languages > Grammars > Early works to 1800

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Citation: Pier Candido Decembrio, Peregrina Historia and Grammaticon. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.