De summo bono and John of Wales, Communiloquium

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Title: De summo bono and John of Wales, Communiloquium
Creator: Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636
Contributor: John, of Wales, -approximately 1285.
Published / Created: [ca. 1300]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment, composed of two separate and incomplete segments. Part I: Isidore, De summo bono. Part II: John of Wales, Communiloquium (Summa de regimine vitae humanae).
Description: In Latin.
Script: Part I (ff. 1-40): Written in small gothic bookhand. Part II (ff. 41-168): Written in small gothic bookhand; later 15th-century hand added appropriate pars and distich numbers as running headlines; scattered marginalia throughout, some in Anglicana script.
Part I: Initials, 4- to 2-line, alternate blue with red penwork designs and red with blue penwork designs. Paragraph marks alternate red and blue. Spaces left for rubrics. Part II: Decoration similar in style and scope to Part I. Part II of the manuscript was well used in the 15th century, for there are several series of numbers in the margins that appear to be chapter or indexing references, in addition to the running headlines.
Binding: Twentieth century. Bound in tan suede (?) with early, printed board pastedowns.
Provenance: Acquired from S. Harrison Thomson in 1968 with the Edwin J. and Frederick W. Beinecke Rare Book Endowment Fund.
Extent: ff. 168 : ca. 194 x 133 (137 x 85) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval England 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636.
Subject (Topic): Manuscripts, Medieval
Scholasticism
Theology
Subjects: Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Scholasticism
Theology > Early works to 1800
England > 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Isidore, De Summo Bono; John of Wales, Communiloquium. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.