Recognitiones

Description

Title: Recognitiones
Creator: Pseudo-Clemens I.
Contributor: Rufinus, of Aquileia, 345-410.
Published / Created: [between 1475 and 1500]
Publication Place: Northern Italy or Austria
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of 2 works that belong to the Pseudoclementine Literature, ascribed to Clement bishop of Rome (ca. 96), in a Latin translation by Rufinus of Aquileia
Description: In Latin.
Watermark: resembles Piccard, v. 2, IV.36 (?).
Script: Copied by one hand in light red-brown ink in Humanistica Cursiva Libraria.
Ample space was provided for headings and initials at the beginning of the Prologue and the ten Books of art. 1 and at the beginning of art. 2, but these were never executed.
Binding: Seventeenth century (?). Deerskin (formerly red) over pasteboard. Spine with three raised bands and worn handwritten title " ******* Epistola. M.S."; at the bottom of the spine handwritten worn pressmark. Remnants of four leather ties, including one in the middle of the upper and one in the middle of the lower edge of the covers. On the lower edge of the book the handwritten title in ink (17th century): "Epist. D. Clementis".
Provenance: Purchased from Laurence Witten in 1983 with Beinecke and Divinity School Funds.
Extent: ff. iii + 170 + ii : 305 x 220 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 15th century
Manuscripts, Medieval Austria 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Pseudo-Clemens I.
Subject (Topic): Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Pseudo-Clemens I.
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Italy > 15th century
Austria > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Pseudo-Clemens I, Recognitiones. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.