Lectura super Clementinis

Description

Title: Lectura super Clementinis
Creator: Zabarella, Francesco, 1360-1417
Published / Created: 1437.
Publication Place: Italy
Abstract: Manuscript on paper of Francesco Zabarella, Lectura super Clementinis
Description: In Latin.
Watermarks: unidentified mountain and unidentified animal obscured by text.
Script: Written by a single scribe in small neat fere-humanistic script. Marginal notes by several writers (15th-16th centuries), one of whom added running titles in upper right-hand corner (recto).
A large empty space on f. 1r indicates that a miniature of ca. 27 lines was planned for the opening of the text. One 7-line initial, f. 1r, shaded pink and orange, with red, green, and blue acanthus leaves on dark blue, with white filigree, against a gold ground edged thickly in black. In the border, a red, blue, and gold flower, with spiraling vines above and below, green, light blue, red, brown, the spirals filled with dark blue or gold, with white filigree. Large gold dots with four black spikes. 2- and 1-line paragraph marks in red or blue throughout. Instructions to the rubricator in margins.
Binding: Twentieth century. Brown goatskin with gold-tooled title. Bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe (London, 1901 to the present).
Provenance: Presented by Thomas E. Marston in 1966.
Extent: ff. iv + 366 + iv : 432 x 285 (270 x 171) 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): Zabarella, Francesco, 1360-1417.
Subject (Topic): Canon law
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Zabarella, Francesco, 1360-1417
Canon law > Early works to 1800
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Zabarella, Lectura Super Clementinis. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.