Horologium sapientiae, etc
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2013549
Description
- Title
- Horologium sapientiae, etc
- Creator
- Seuse, Heinrich, 1295-1366
- Published / Created
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Publication Place
- Italy
- Abstract
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Manuscript on parchment of Henry Suso, Horologium Sapientiae, translated into Italian. With Office of Eternal Wisdom (Cursus de aeterna sapientia), composed by Henry Suso; and several anonymous, miscellaneous texts
- Description
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In Italian.
Script: Main text written in gothic bookhand, below top line.
For main text divisions good blue initials with plain parchment designs and red penwork flourishes; elsewhere 2-line initials alternate red with blue harping designs and blue with red. On f. 11r red rectangular page filler at bottom of text space. Small plain 1-line initials alternate red and blue. Headings and paragraph marks in red. Majuscules stroked with yellow. Remains of guide letters.
Binding: Fifteenth century, Italy. Original sewing on four tawed skin, kermes pink slit straps laced through tunnels in the edge of wooden boards to channels on the outside and nailed. A tawed skin endband core is laid in grooves and covered with plain, wound primary and red secondary embroidery. Spine: supports outlined and panels diapered with triple fillets. Covered in light brown goatskin with corner tongues, and decorated with interlace squares on their points within concentric frames. Trace of one fastening, the catch on the lower board and the upper one cut in for a red fabric strap attached with star-headed nails. The cover has been varnished. - Provenance
- Purchased from B. M. Rosenthal of New York in 1957 by L. C. Witten, who sold it the same year to Thomas E. Marston.
- Extent
- ff. 252 : 185 x 125 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 130
- Related Resource Online
- View a detailed description.
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Translations
Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library - Material
- parchment ;
- Resource Type
- unspecified
- Subject (Geographic)
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Connecticut
New Haven. - Subject (Name)
- Seuse, Heinrich, 1295-1366.
- Subject (Topic)
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Devotional literature, Italian
Literature, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
Mysticism - Subjects
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Seuse, Heinrich, 1295-1366
Devotional literature, Italian
Literature, Medieval > Translations
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Mysticism > Early works to 1800
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
- Henry Suso, Horologium Sapientiae, etc. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9809738
- Object ID (OID)
- 2013549
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