Translations of Sts Basil of Ancyra and John Chrysostom

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Title: Translations of Sts Basil of Ancyra and John Chrysostom
Creator: Traversari, Ambrogio, 1386-1439
Contributor: Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, approximately 329-379.
John Chrysostom, Saint, -407.
Published / Created: [ca. 1450]
Publication Place: Italy
Abstract: Manuscript on goatskin parchment of 1) St Basil of Ancyra, De vera integritate virginitatis. Translated into Latin by Ambrogio Traversari between 1423-1424; 2) St John Chrysostom, Adversus oppugnatores vitae monasticae. Translated into Latin by Ambrogio Traversari in 1420
Description: In Latin.
Script: Copied by one scribe, writing in Humanistica Semitextualis with a few Gothic features.
Pale red rubrics. Text undecorated, with the following exceptions: plain 2-4-line initials (Capitalis) in red or blue on pp. 1, 152, 155, 188; 5-line white vinestem initial integrated in a three-margins-left border in the same style on p. 3; the initial and border have been attributed by Albinia C. de la Mare to Giovanni d'Antonio Varnucci (1416-1457).
Binding: 19th-20th centuries; brown morocco over cardboard. Both covers are blind-tooled with frames of fillets and four different flower tools. Five raised bands are on the spine.
Provenance: Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
Extent: ff. i + 118 : 185 x 120 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: Beinecke MS 683
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Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Traversari, Ambrogio, 1386-1439.
Subject (Topic): Fathers of the church
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
Monastic and religious life
Subjects: Traversari, Ambrogio, 1386-1439
Fathers of the church
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Monastic and religious life
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Ambrogio Traversari, Translations of Sts Basil of Ancyra and John Chrysostom. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.