Specchio delle donne, etc
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2014420
Description
- Title
- Specchio delle donne, etc
- Contributor
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Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 1091-1153.
Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, approximately 1217-1274. - Published / Created
- [ca. 1450].
- Publication Place
- Lombardy (Milan?)
- Abstract
-
Manuscript on goatskin of Specchio delle donne; Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux, Planctus beatae Mariae and Meditatio super Salve Regina; St. Bonaventure, Meditatio in Orationem Dominicam; and various other prayers and devotions
- Description
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In Italian.
Script: Copied by one hand in Gothico-Humanistica Libraria/Formata with single-compartment a.
Decoration: Headings, paragraph marks, and 2-line plain initials in red. Art. 9 entirely written in red. A 6-line historiated initial with acanthus extensions and burnished gold bezants in the margin on f. 1r: half-length figure of Christ as Man of Sorrows, sitting in the Tomb among the Instrumens of the Passion. The illumination is attributed to the Master of the Vitae imperatorum.
Binding: Contemporary brown leather over wooden boards with square edges, damaged and rebacked; sewn on three split leather thongs. Marks of four small bosses on each cover. Marks of one clasp probably attached to the front cover. Title inscription on a partly preserved paper label on the spine: “[S]pech[io] / [d]ell[e] / [d]on[ne]." At the bottom, there are remainders of a printed paper label with handwritten number "**9." - Provenance
- Ex libris Hermann Suchier (1848-1914). Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
- Extent
- ff. II + 80 + I : 205 x 140 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
- Beinecke MS 1017
- Related Resource Online
- View a detailed description.
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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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 (Topic)
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- Subjects
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Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Suchier, Hermann, 1848-1914 > Bookplate
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
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- Citation
- Specchio delle Donne, etc. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9892794
- Object ID (OID)
- 2014420
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