Florilegium
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2003536
Description
- Title
- Florilegium
- Creator
- Aegidius Beneventanus
- Contributor
- Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636.
- Published / Created
- [between 1250 and 1300]
- Publication Place
- Northern Italy
- Abstract
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Manuscript on parchment of Aegidius Beneventanus, Collection of extracts on moral subjects (Part I), historical, genealogical and geographical subjects (Parts II and III) drawn from classical, Biblical and medieval texts. With Extracts from Isidore, Etymologiae
- Description
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In Latin.
Script: Written by several scribes in an uneven gothic bookhand.
Two attractive illuminated initials, 4-line, with partial borders. Folio 1r, initial constructed of a winged dragon, pale yellow with white highlights and red contouring strokes against a blue ground. Tail of dragon extends down the inner margin to form a partial bar border, blue, red, pale yellow with beads in red, blue, and yellow and small stylized leaves, blue and pale yellow swirling around bar. Border ends in lower margin in stylized scroll inhabited by a bird, outlined in red and brown ink, and a fowler, pointing a bow and arrow. Folio 30r, initial, red and pale yellow against blue ground with white filigree, filled with a grotesque and a dragon. Descender of initial extends into margin to form a partial bar border, same as above; border terminates in lower margin in a stylized scroll, ending in a dragon's head. Several flourished initials of good quality, 3-line, blue or red with penwork in the opposite color, extending the entire length of the text column (e.g., f. 45v). Other pen and ink initials, red with crude penwork in brown ink. Plain initials and headings in red. Paragraph marks primarily in red. Instructions to rubricator throughout; remains of guide letters. Spaces left unfilled for some initials.
Binding: 19th-20th centuries, France (?). Quarter bound in blind-tooled brown calf over oak boards by the same binder as Marston MSS 214, 216 and 236. - Provenance
- Purchased from Nicolas Rauch S. A. of Geneva in 1958 by L. C. Witten, who sold it the same year to Thomas E. Marston.
- Extent
- ff. 186 : 235 x 161 (156 x 96) 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
- Marston MS 119
- Related Resource Online
- View a detailed description.
- Container / Volume
- Vol. 2
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Commonplace books Italy 13th century
Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 13th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library - Material
- parchment ;
- Resource Type
- unspecified
- Subject (Geographic)
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Connecticut
New Haven. - Subject (Name)
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Aegidius Beneventanus.
Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636. - Subject (Topic)
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Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval - Subjects
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Aegidius Beneventanus
Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Italy > 13th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
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
- Aegidius Beneventanus, Florilegium. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9809551
- Object ID (OID)
- 2003536
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