Miscellany of Italian dicerie
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Description
- Title
- Miscellany of Italian dicerie
- Contributor
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Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.
Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444.
Filelfo, Francesco, 1398-1481.
Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374. - Published / Created
- [ca. 1450]
- Publication Place
- Florence
- Abstract
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Manuscript on paper of a Miscellany of vernacular humanistic prose texts, including works by Giovanni Boccaccio, Petrarch, Francesco Filelfo, and Leonardo Bruni
- Description
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In Italian.
Watermarks: Briquet Fleur 6655, Echelle 5908, 5910, and similar to Briquet Chapeau 3370.
Script: Written in neat humanistic cursive by a single scribe, below top line.
Three-quarter border, f. 5r, white vine-stem ornament on blue, red and green ground with grey and yellow dots. In lower border, vine-stem turning into a floral border and brown penwork scrolls with pink, blue and green flowers and gold dots. Illuminated initial, 6-line, gold on blue, green and red ground with white vine-stem ornament joined to inner border. Headings in red. Plain 3-line initials in blue mark text divisions. Guide letters in margins.
Binding: Fifteenth century, Italy. Vellum stays adhered inside the quires. Original sewing on four tawed skin, slit straps laid in channels on the outside of wooden boards and nailed. Edges yellow ochre. A green and natural color, beaded endband is sewn on five cores. The primary one laid in grooves on the outside of the boards. The spine is lined with tawed skin or vellum extending onto the edge of the boards between supports. Covered in tan leather blind-tooled with a potented cross in a central square with rope interlace panels above and below, and a border also filled with rope interlace. Spine: supports defined with double fillets and the panels diapered. Traces of five bosses on each board. Two ivy leaf fastenings, the catches on the lower board, the upper one cut in for green fabric straps attached with star-headed nails. Binding is heavily overoiled. - Provenance
- Purchased from B. M. Rosenthal in 1959 by Thomas E. Marston.
- Extent
- ff. ii + 191 + ii : 293 x 217 (180 x 115) mm.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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Italian
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Marston MS 247
- 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
- paper ;
- Resource Type
- unspecified
- Subject (Geographic)
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Italy.
Connecticut
New Haven. - Subject (Topic)
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Humanism
Italian literature
Manuscripts, Medieval - Subjects
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Humanism > Italy
Italian literature > To 1400
Italian literature > 15th century
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Italy > 15th 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
- Miscellany of Italian Dicerie. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9839413
- Object ID (OID)
- 2003769
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