Manuscript on parchment of Dialogue: "De cognitione habita apud demones," with an unidentified text
Description:
In Latin., Script: copied by one hand writing a late and imperfect Humanistica Textualis Formata. The closing formula and the alphabet at the end of the dialogue in Capitalis., The texts in Capitalis are stroked in red. Numerous 2-line initials: a Capitalis letter in gold on a bordeaux-coloured rectangular background heightened with silver penwork., and Binding: original Italian binding: brown leather over wooden boards, the covers blind-tooled with fillets and rope-work forming a cross inscribed in a frame. At the top of the spine a parchment label with the handwritten inscription s. XVII: “R / De cogni/tione / demo/nis / circa / Christum” (doubtful reading).
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Dialogues, Latin (Medieval and modern) and Manuscripts, Medieval
