Treatise on cardinal virtues
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Description
- Title
- Treatise on cardinal virtues
- Published / Created
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Publication Place
- Northeastern Italy
- Abstract
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Manuscript on paper of an unidentified treatise, incomplete, on the Cardinal Virtues; material taken mostly from Valerius Maximus, with additional material from Augustine, the Bible, Cicero, Seneca, Macrobius, Aristotle, and Vegetius
- Description
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In Italian.
Watermarks: similar to Briquet Coutelas 5157, 5159.
Script: Written by a single scribe in humanistic cursive script with notarial features, above top line.
28 pen and watercolor initials, heavily influenced by Greek models, 24- to 10-line (with larger initials at the main divisions for Justice on f. 1r, Prudence on f. 8r, Temperance on f. 14r, and Strength on f. 25r), in green, red or pale purple on paper ground, with intricate designs of scrolling and intertwining vines, pale yellow with touches of unburnished gold, terminating in spiky leaves. Berries, pale purple, red or green with geometric pen designs attached to the vines. Folio 1r, ends of initial S terminating in dragon heads; ff. 14r and 25r, unidentified arms (or, 2 or 3 bars nebuly purpure), incorporated into the initial. Sketches, in lead, visible beneath most initials. Headings in red. Majuscules touched with yellow.
Binding: 19th-20th centuries, Italy. Paste-paper case binding in yellow, green and red. - Provenance
- Purchased from the Turin dealer Bourlot by H. P. Kraus, who sold it in 1958 to Thomas E. Marston.
- Extent
- ff. i + 30 + i : 285 x 195 (210 x 115) mm.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Digitization Note
- Leaves 42-43 excised.
- Language
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Italian
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Marston MS 43
- Related Resource Online
- View a detailed description.
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Translations
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 (Name)
- Valerius Maximus.
- Subject (Topic)
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Cardinal virtues
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Literature, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval - Subjects
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Valerius Maximus
Cardinal virtues
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Literature, Medieval > Translations
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
- Treatise on Cardinal Virtues. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9806536
- Object ID (OID)
- 9998586
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