Regulae grammaticales, etc

Description

Title: Regulae grammaticales, etc
Creator: Guarino, Veronese, 1374-1460
Published / Created: [between 1425 and 1450]
Publication Place: Venice (?)
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of Guarino of Verona, 1) Regulae grammaticales. 2) De orthographia. 3) Carmina differentialia
Description: In Latin.
Script: Written in humanistic bookhand, below top line; marginal annotations in humanistic cursive.
One illuminated initial of poor quality, f. 1r, 11-line, purple with white filigree on gold and blue ground; filled with a stylized flower red and green with white filigree, upper terminal extending into pen-and-ink inkspray with gold balls and a mauve flower in upper border; pen-and-ink flourish with gold balls, ending in a bird's head, mauve, green and blue. Plain initials and paragraph marks alternate in blue and red; headings in red. Arms of the Valaresso family of Venice in lower border (azure, 3 bars gemelles or); partially effaced arms of Cardinal Bessarion in outer margin (azure, a cross botonny gules, a chief or; crest, cardinal's hat and crozier).
Binding: Nineteenth century (?). Rigid vellum case. Remains of a brick red label.
Provenance: Bookplate of Thomas E. Marston; the date and source of acquisition unknown.
Extent: ff. ii + 28 + ii : 210 x 140 (136 x 86-89) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been partially digitized.
Language: Latin

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: Marston MS 286
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Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Guarino, Veronese, 1374-1460.
Subject (Topic): Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Language and languages
Orthography and spelling
Latin language, Medieval and modern
Grammar
Latin poetry, Medieval and modern
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Guarino, Veronese, 1374-1460
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Language and languages > Orthography and spelling
Latin language, Medieval and modern > Grammar
Latin poetry, Medieval and modern
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Guarino da Verona, Regulae Grammaticales, etc. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.