Moral treatises

Description

Title: Moral treatises
Published / Created: [between 1500 and 1525]
Publication Place: Italy
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of 1) Treatise on Christian love. 2) On the contemplation of death, final judgment and hellish punishment. 3) Six prescriptions for Christian life given by St. Bonaventure (Bonaventura, 1221-1274) to a young friar. Translated into Italian. 4) The qualities of a perfect monk
Description: In Italian and Latin.
Script: Copied by one hand in large calligraphic Humanistica Textualis Formata; line-fillers in the form of crossed i.
2-line plain initials (Capitalis) in red, with guide-letters. A few flourishes in black at the end of articles.
Binding: Sixteenth century. Italian brown leather over pasteboards, both covers blind-tooled: fillet frames and a border of floral tools, in the centre a fleuron. Marks of two ties. Yellow edges.
Provenance: Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
Extent: ff. i + i + 25 + i : 120 x 80 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Italian
Latin

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: Beinecke MS 735
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Genre: Translations
Manuscripts, Renaissance Italy 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Topic): Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Didactic literature
Literature, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Didactic literature
Literature, Medieval > Translations
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Italy > 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Moral Treatises. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.