Latin poems

Description

Title: Latin poems
Creator: Marrasio, Giovanni
Published / Created: [ca. 1450]
Publication Place: Italy
Abstract: Manuscript on paper, copied from an exemplar with the final part in disorder
Description: In Latin.
Script: Copied by one hand writing an imperfect Humanistica Textualis with a relatively large number of abbreviations, incomplete word separations, hesitations, errors and corrections making reading sometimes difficult in spite of the formal character of the writing.
Spaces and guide-letters for initials (3-line on ff.1r and 2r, the others 2-line); the initials are not executed.
Binding: Of undetermined age. Half light brown leather over original (?) unbevelled wooden boards, the leather decorated with fillets in a geometrical checkered pattern. Spine with four raised bands. Modern parchment pastedowns covering the inner half of the boards.
Provenance: The Albert H. Childs, Yale '61, Memorial Collection at Yale University Library.
Extent: ff. i +16 + xiv : 170 x 115 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): Marrasio, Giovanni.
Subject (Topic): Latin poetry, Medieval and modern
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Marrasio, Giovanni
Latin poetry, Medieval and modern
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Giovanni Marrasio, Latin Poems. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.