De bello punico

Description

Title: De bello punico
Creator: Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444
Contributor: Lebegue, Jean.
Published / Created: [between 1450 and 1500]
Publication Place: France
Abstract: Manuscript on paper of Leonardo Bruni, De bello punico, translated into French by Jean Lebegue; made, and presented in 1445, for Charles VII of France (1422-1461).
Description: In French.
Watermarks: closest to Briquet Armoiries-Trois fleurs de lis 1686.
Script: Written by a single scribe in an elegant batarde script that sits above the line, rather than on it.
Red and blue divided initials, 5-line, on ff. 1r, 2v, 4v, and for major text divisions thereafter. 3- to 2-line plain red or blue initials throughout. Initials alternate red and blue for tables on ff. 1r-2v. Multi-line headings in red sharply indented toward right. Guideletters for illuminator.
Binding: Sixteenth century, France. Olive green goatskin, roughly gold-tooled with the arms of Claude d'Urfe in the center and a monogram of his initial (C) with that of his wife, Jeanne de Balzac (I) in the corners, together with cornucopiae, caducei, laurel and flaming altars. Gilt edges. Corners repaired.
Provenance: Belonged to Lucius Wilmerding; purchased at the sale of his estate by H. P. Kraus, who sold it in 1960 to Thomas E. Marston.
Extent: ff. ii + 76 : 285 x 193 (199 x 125) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been partially digitized.
Language: French, Middle (ca. 1300-1600)

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: Marston MS 274
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Genre: Translations
Manuscripts, Medieval France 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: paper ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444.
Charles VII, King of France, 1403-1461.
Subject (Topic): Literature, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
Punic wars
Subjects: Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444
Charles VII, King of France, 1403-1461
Literature, Medieval > Translations
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Punic wars
France > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Leonardo Bruni, De Bello Punico. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.