Commentary on the Doctrinale of Alexander de Villa Dei

Description

Title: Commentary on the Doctrinale of Alexander de Villa Dei
Contributor: Alexander, de Villa Dei.
Published / Created: [between 1200 and 1400].
Publication Place: Northern Italy
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of Commentary on the Doctrinale of Alexander de Villa Dei, with the text of the Doctrinale (verses 29 to 1567) added in the margins by various hands
Description: Script: Copied by various similar hands, writing in a very small Gothica Textualis Currens. The Doctrinale text (art. 3) is written in the margins by various later hands, mostly using a bold and rounded Gothica Semitextualis Libraria, with sometimes elongated and decorated ascenders or descenders.
In Latin.
Provenance: Purchased in 2003 from Martayan Lan Rare Books, Maps, and Prints, New York, on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund in honor of Herman W. Liebert.
Extent: ff. i (paper) + 100 + i (paper) : 190 x 135 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 13th century
Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Alexander, de Villa Dei.
Subject (Topic): Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Alexander, de Villa Dei
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Italy > 13th century
Italy > 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Commentary on the Doctrinale of Alexander de Villa Dei. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.