De situ Iapygiae

Description

Title: De situ Iapygiae
Creator: Ferrari, Antonio de, 1444-1517
Published / Created: 1534.
Publication Place: Italy
Abstract: Manuscript on paper of Antonio de Ferrariis (called himself Galateo after his birthplace, d. 1517), De situ Iapygiae. His work is a geographical, historical, epigraphical and literary description of Iapygia, i.e. the Southeastern part of Italy (now Apulia).
Description: In Latin.
Script: Three scribes, all writing Humanistica Cursiva: hand A copied ff. 1r-20v, 24v-26v, 31r-36r line 10, 36v last three lines (Libraria); hand B copied ff. 21r-24r, 27r-30v (Currens); hand C copied f. 36r line 10-36v, except the last three lines (Currens under Gothic influence).
No decoration.
Water stains. Some pages badly damaged by the acid ink.
Binding: The damaged covers of the original binding are mounted on the new binding in brown leather. Blind-tooled, featuring two square frames bordered by fillets and rolls.
Provenance: Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
Extent: ff. i + 36 + i : 330 x 225 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Renaissance Italy 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: paper ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Italy
Puglia (Italy)
Subject (Name): Ferrari, Antonio de, 1444-1517.
Subject (Topic): Latin literature, Medieval and modern
Manuscripts, Medieval
Description and travel
Subjects: Ferrari, Antonio de, 1444-1517
Latin literature, Medieval and modern
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Italy > Description and travel > Early works to 1800
Puglia (Italy)
Italy > 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Antonio de Ferrariis, De situ Iapygiae. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.