Facta et dicta memorabilia
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Description
- Title
- Facta et dicta memorabilia
- Creator
- Valerius Maximus
- Published / Created
- [between 1350 and 1400]
- Publication Place
- Northern Italy
- Abstract
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Manuscript on parchment of Valerius Maximus, Facta et dicta memorabilia
- Description
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In Latin.
Script: Written in gothic bookhand. Marginal and interlinear annotations in less formal scripts.
8 large initials, 10- to 7-line, of poor quality, pink against gold ground thickly edged in black, filled with stylized foliage, green, orange, and yellow on blue ground. Foliage serifs, pink, blue, orange and yellow with white filigree extending into margins to form partial borders. Gold balls, thickly edged in black. Numerous small initials, 5- to 3-line, pink against gold ground edged in black, filled with stylized foliage, orange and yellow on blue ground. Numerous flourished initials, 2- to 1-line, alternate in red and blue with brown or red penwork. Headings in red by at least two rubricators. Paragraph marks in blue for chapters in tables preceding each book; in red and blue for text.
Folio 1r damaged with some loss of text. Most of the decoration is badly rubbed and stained.
Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Brown leather case, blind- and gold-tooled. Title (citing portion of table of contents for Book II, f. 1r) on spine: "De institutis/ antiquis/ de disciplina/ militari/ de iure" and "Triumphandi". - Provenance
- Purchased in 1954 from A. L. van Gendt, Netherlands, by L. C. Witten, who sold it in 1958 to Thomas E. Marston.
- Extent
- ff. i + 74 + i : 273 x 199 (170 x 118) mm.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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Latin
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Marston MS 234
- Related Resource Online
- View a detailed description.
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library - Material
- parchment ;
- Resource Type
- unspecified
- Subject (Geographic)
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Connecticut
New Haven. - Subject (Name)
- Valerius Maximus.
- Subject (Topic)
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Didactic literature, Latin
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval - Subjects
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Valerius Maximus
Didactic literature, Latin
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Italy > 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
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- Citation
- Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9838208
- Object ID (OID)
- 32135182
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