Novellae

Description

Title: Novellae
Creator: Morlini, Girolamo, 16th cent
Published / Created: [between 1600 and 1700]
Publication Place: Italy
Abstract: Manuscript on paper of Girolamo Morlini (c. 1480-after 1528), Novellae. The manuscript is an exact copy of the edition Naples, Giovanni Pasquet de Sallo, 1520. It reproduces all the features of its printed model, including frontispiece woodcut, foliation and signatures. Soon after its publication the book was suppressed because of the obscenities many Novellae contain
Description: In Latin.
Script: Copied by one hand in clear Humanistica Cursiva; titles in Capitalis.
2-line initials (Capitalis) in black ink. Renaissance initial in pen and ink on f. 2r; space for an initial, with guide-letter, on f. 4r. The frontispiece is a pen-and-ink copy of the original woodcut, showing the author in his study, seated at his desk, with a clock and an armillary sphere, under a starry sky with sun and moon.
Numerous pages are damaged by the acid ink.
Binding: Paper (or thin parchment) over pasteboard; on the spine gold-tooled bordeaux leather label with the title "MORLINI. / NOVEL.". Mark of a red seal on the rear cover.
Provenance: Collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps, MS 22347. Purchased 1989 from H.P. Kraus (New York) on the Mrs. Lathrop Colgate Harper Fund in memory of Lathrop Colgate Harper, litt. d.
Extent: ff. ii + 86 + ii : 300 x 200 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 17th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: paper ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Morlini, Girolamo, 16th cent.
Subject (Topic): Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Latin literature, Medieval and modern
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Morlini, Girolamo, 16th cent
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Latin literature, Medieval and modern
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Italy > 17th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Girolamo Morlini, Novellae. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.