Collection of texts on St. Barbara
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Description
- Title
- Collection of texts on St. Barbara
- Published / Created
- [between 1470 and 1480]
- Publication Place
- Northern Belgium
- Abstract
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Manuscript on parchment (thick, but good quality) of a Collection of Texts on St. Barbara. With a miscellany of texts including patristic works, moralistic poems, and prophecies
- Description
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In Latin.
Script: Written in a regular heavy hybrida formata script with features of bastarda by a single scribe who placed small circular flourishes above the letter u.
10-line illuminated initial on f. 5r, blue and mauve with white designs and highlights on gold cusped ground, a blue and gold bar border extending into the left-hand margin and terminating in acanthus leaves in the lower margin; interior of initial in orange, blue and gold checkered pattern. Fine red and blue divided initials, 8- to 7-line, with parchment designs and extensive pale purple flourishes, for major texts. Smaller plain initials in red or blue with parchment designs. Headings and initial strokes in red. Some instructions to rubricator in outer margins.
Binding: ca. 1500, Belgium. Covered in brown calf with corner tongues over wooden boards, a central panel diapered with blind-tooled triple fillets. Center and corner fittings and title written in a careful gothic bookhand under a brass-framed window on the upper board: "liber gloriose uirginis et martyris christi barbare". Lower board cut in for the straps which are attached with metal plates. Hasps of a chain on the lower board. Rebacked. - Provenance
- Purchased from B. M. Rosenthal (date unknown) by Thomas E. Marston.
- Extent
- ff. 73 : 214 x 148 (135 x 96) mm.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been partially digitized.
- Language
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Latin
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Marston MS 287
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Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval Belgium 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)
- Barbara, Saint.
- Subject (Topic)
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Christian martyrs
Christian poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Fathers of the church
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
Prophecies - Subjects
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Barbara, Saint
Christian martyrs
Christian poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Fathers of the church
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Prophecies > Early works to 1800
Belgium > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
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- Access
- Public
- Rights
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- Citation
- Collection of Texts on St. Barbara. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9855850
- Object ID (OID)
- 2013555
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