Two letters on eremitic and clerical life

Description

Title: Two letters on eremitic and clerical life
Creator: Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420
Contributor: Lange, Johann, 1503-1567.
Published / Created: [between 1500 and 1550]
Publication Place: Germany (?)
Abstract: Manuscript on paper of 1) Hieronymus (347-420), Epistola 14 (Ad Heliodorum). 2) Hieronymus, Epistola 52 (ad Nepotianum). 3) Johannes Lange (1503-1567), Sibyllae Erythreae Vaticinium, translated from the Greek into Latin by Iohannes Langus
Description: In Latin.
Script: Copied by two hands in Humanistica Cursiva, with large interlinear spaces.
Undecorated, except for a Gothic flourished initial in brown ink on f. 1r and a capital at the opening of art. 2, both probably later additions. In art. 3 the initial at the beginning of the text is not executed. The heading of art. 2 is partly in Capitalis.
Binding: Sixteenth century. Blind-tooled brown leather over pasteboard (very worn), decorated with a fleuron in the center of the covers, rebacked.
Provenance: Purchased from H.P. Kraus, New York, on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
Extent: ff. ii + 48 : 135 x 90 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Renaissance Germany 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: paper ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420.
Subject (Topic): Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Monasticism and religious orders
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Monasticism and religious orders
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Germany > 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Saint Jerome, Two Letters on Eremitic and Clerical Life. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.