Saints' lives
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2065207
Description
- Title
- Saints' lives
- Published / Created
- 1465.
- Publication Place
- Italy
- Abstract
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Manuscript on paper (thick, coarse) of Lives of the Saints, preceded by accounts of events in the Bible from both the Old and New Testaments. Folios 51 and 61 interchanged in rebinding
- Description
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In Italian.
Watermarks: similar in design to Briquet Ciseaux 3708 dated Genoa, 1465.
Script: Written by several scribes in unruly mercantesca script, above top line. Script becomes smaller and tighter toward end of codex.
Crudely executed title page, f. 1r, consisting of floral and foliage motifs in upper margin, scroll around column in inner margin, and, in outer margin, scroll around column terminating in elongated arm with text on the scroll (much rubbed and stained). In lower margin a coat of arms (damaged; probably: or, two columns gules); the letters B and C on either side in the bases of columns in inner and outer margins. The decoration of title page in bright red and green. Plain initials (some with simple foliage designs), headings, paragraph marks, pointing hands, and hands holding crosses or symbols of passions of martyrs (e. g., gridiron for Laurence), all in bright red, green, and/or black.
Folio 1 damaged; no loss of text.
Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Rigid vellum case with two red labels on spine: "Trattati di storia sacra" and "Manuscritto 1360". - Provenance
- Purchased from L. C. Witten in 1959 by Thomas E. Marston.
- Extent
- ff. i + ii + 187 : 332 x 236 (242 x 162) 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
- Marston MS 56
- 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
- paper ;
- Resource Type
- unspecified
- Subject (Geographic)
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Connecticut
New Haven. - Subject (Topic)
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Christian hagiography
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Italian literature
Manuscripts, Medieval - Subjects
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Christian hagiography
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Italian literature > 15th century
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
- Saints' Lives. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9807149
- Object ID (OID)
- 2065207
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