Directorium iuris, etc

Description

Title: Directorium iuris, etc
Creator: Quesvel, Petrus
Published / Created: [ca. 1350]
Publication Place: France (?)
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment (rough, poorly prepared) of Petrus Quesvel, Directorium iuris. With Eleven short blessings at Easter for meat, cheese, bread, salt, and lard, added in the 15th century
Description: In Latin.
Script: Written by a single scribe in a hasty cursive schoolhand.
Red and blue split initials, 18- and 16-line, with elaborate penwork designs and plain full border in red and blue mark beginning of Books 1 and 2 (ff. 1r, 91r); smaller initial with partial border at beginning of Books 3 and 4 (ff. 191r, 297r) and for the two parts of art. 3 (ff. 428r, 439r). Numerous initials, 5- to 2-line, alternate blue with red flourishes and vice versa. Running titles in red and blue, paragraph marks alternate red and blue. Notes to rubricator, but rubrics never supplied. Initial strokes and underlining, in red, for arts. 2 and 3.
Part of outer column of f. 189 cut off, no loss of text.
Binding: Twentieth century. Brown calf over wooden boards, with the leather sewn around the endbands.
Provenance: Purchased from Bernard M. Rosenthal in 1968 as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke.
Extent: ff. i + 448 + i : 329 x 248 (260 x 198) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been partially digitized.
Language: Latin

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: Beinecke MS 429
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Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval France 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Quesvel, Petrus.
Subject (Topic): Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Law, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
Scholia
Subjects: Quesvel, Petrus
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Law, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Scholia
France > 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Directorium Iuris, etc. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.