Meditationes

Description

Title: Meditationes
Creator: Laurentius
Published / Created: 1482.
Publication Place: Italy (Florence)
Abstract: Manuscript on paper of Laurentius, Meditationes. This treatise contains a Christian humanistic philosophy dealing with God, the angels, cosmography, man, mind, the soul and happiness. Authors quoted are Averroes, Socrates, Aristotle, St. Augustine, St. Jerome, Cicero, Pythagoras, Mohammed, the Bible, etc
Description: In Latin.
Script: Uneven Humanistica Cursiva Libraria using e.g. the ampersand as well as Tironian et, round and straight s in final position, probably by one hand working in several campaigns.
Rubrics and marginalia in pale red. Guide-letters in the left margin, but initials lacking.
Binding: Original brown calf over cardboard made of fragments of a ca. 1400 paper register in Latin, dealing with a Clara Birgerynne and a master Michael Birger in Bratislava. Blind-tooled; the front cover has a more elaborate decoration than the rear cover. Yellow edges.
Provenance: Presented by Thomas E. Marston, October 1973.
Extent: ff. i + 40 + i : 215 x 145 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: paper ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Laurentius.
Subject (Topic): Humanism
Manuscripts, Medieval
Philosophy, Renaissance
Subjects: Laurentius
Humanism
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Philosophy, Renaissance
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Laurentius, Meditationes. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.