Liber ad monachos

Description

Title: Liber ad monachos
Creator: Hieronymus, de Neapoli
Published / Created: [between 1450 and 1500]
Publication Place: Italy
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of Book for the instruction of monks
Description: The author Hieronymus Miraballius of Naples was vicar general of the Olivetan order 1417-20, 1431-35.
In Latin.
Script: Written by two scribes. Scribe 1 (ff. 1r-22r) in informal humanistic script. Scribe 2 (ff. 22r-54v) in fere-humanistic script.
Gold initial, 4-line, infilled and surrounded by blue penwork designs, on f. 1r for beginning of prologue; charming border extending down inner margin, in blue and purple penwork, with gold dots, incoporates grotesque with gold tongue. Plain red initials, 3- to 2-line, with purple penwork, for first incipit. Headings and paragraph marks in red throughout. Guide-letters for rubricator.
Some folios repaired with modern paper or parchment along lower margin.
Binding: Nineteenth century. Rigid vellum case.
Provenance: Acquired from S. Harrison Thomson in 1968 with the Edwin J. and Frederick W. Beinecke Rare Book Endowment Fund.
Extent: ff. i + 54 + i : 200 x 139 (140 x 99) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been partially digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Rules
Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Hieronymus de Neapoli.
Olivetans
Subject (Topic): Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
Monasticism and religious orders
Subjects: Hieronymus de Neapoli
Olivetans > Rules
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Monasticism and religious orders > Rules
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Hieronymus de Neapoli, Liber ad Monachos. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.