De miseriis curialium

Description

Title: De miseriis curialium
Creator: Pius II, Pope, 1405-1464
Published / Created: 22 April 1464.
Publication Place: Northwestern Italy
Abstract: Manuscript on paper of 1) Will of Guglielmo di Montiglio, councillor of Guglielmo X (VIII) Palaeologus, Margrave of Montferrato, 1464-1483, dated Casale Montferrato, 8 Febr. 1469. 2) Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini (afterwards Pope Pius II, 1458-1464), De miseriis curialium, a letter addressed to the German courtier Iohannes von Eich, written 1444
Description: In Latin.
Watermark: flower (?).
Art. 1 is copied in a rapid Humanistica Cursiva Libraria. Art. 2, by another hand, is in Humanistica Textualis Formata.
Art. 1 is undecorated. Art. 2 opens with a 3-line plain initial in red and blue, followed by a line in Capitals. In the lower margin of f. 5r a coat of arms gules, with a head (?) azure and a heart-shield gold. Initial and coat of arms, of mediocre execution, are by the same hand.
Binding: Nineteenth century. De luxe binding by Chambolle-Duru. Brown morocco over pasteboard, the turn-ins gold-tooled; marbled endpapers. Spine with five raised bands and gold-tooled inscription: "AENEAS / SYLVIUS / DE / MISERIIS / CURIALIUM". Gilt edges.
Provenance: Purchased from Laurence Witten on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
Extent: ff. i + 46 + iii : 220 x 160 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): Pius II, Pope, 1405-1464.
Subject (Topic): Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Letters, Papal
Manuscripts, Medieval
Wills
Subjects: Pius II, Pope, 1405-1464
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Letters, Papal
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Wills
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Pope Pius II, De Miseriis Curialium. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.