Prayers for use at Mass
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Description
- Title
- Prayers for use at Mass
- Creator
- Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274
- Published / Created
- approximately 1500-1549.
- Publication Place
- Italy
- Abstract
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Manuscript, on parchment, in a single late Beneventan hand, probably that of a nun, containing a collection of 27 prayers by Saint Thomas Aquinas and others for use at Mass
- Description
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In Latin.
Ff. 74v-75r contain 20 lines of a prayer: "O sacro sanctissimo ochino di pieta," in an Italic script.
Layout: single columns of 14 lines.
Script: late Beneventan miniscule.
Decoration: Extensive. Many small capitals alternately blue and gold with penwork in red and purple. 30 three-line and rwo-line initials either in burnished gold with purple penwork or dark blue with red penwork; very large illuminated initial on opening page with leafy design and burnished gold outlined in red enclosing formal floral pattern, with full-length bar extending into upper and lower margins.
Binding: 16th century limp parchment. Cover is made from a 15th-century portolan chart of part of the Adriatic coast of Apulia (Schøyen Collection title: Portolan map of the Adriatic Coast of Apulia in the kingdom of Napoli from Rinaldo south as far as Port Badisco, including Otranto and inland towns with little hills.) 230 mm x 160 mm (flattened). Lettering of portolan in small humanist hand.
Binding: green gilt quarter morocco folding case, Aquarius, 1995, with Schøyen Collection bookplate. - Provenance
- Formerly owned by the Benedictine monastery of Saint Patrizia, Naples, Italy. Schoyen MS 1981. Purchased from Richard A. Linenthal on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2020.
- Extent
- ii + 76 + ii : 140 mm x 100 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
- Beinecke MS 1262
- Container / Volume
- Box
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 16th century
Manuscripts, Renaissance Italy 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library - Material
- parchment ;
- Resource Type
- text
- Subject (Geographic)
-
Connecticut
New Haven. - Subject (Name)
- Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.
- Subject (Topic)
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Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Renaissance
Portolan charts - Subjects
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Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Manuscripts, Renaissance > Connecticut > New Haven
Portolan charts
Italy > 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Schøyen, Martin > Bookplate
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
- Saint Thomas Aquinas, Prayers for Use at Mass. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 15585321
- Object ID (OID)
- 32342542
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