Manuscript on parchment of Alexander of Villa Dei, Doctrinale
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in round gothic bookhand by a single scribe, below top line., One historiated initial, f. 1r, 6-line, pink, red, and green with white filigree on gold ground thinly edged in black, with a half-length portrait of a teacher in red robes and a red cap holding a book, against a blue ground with white filigree. In the lower margin arms of the Pesaro family of Venice (per pale indented or and azure), framed by scrolling acanthus, green, red, blue, and pink. Plain initials and paragraph marks both alternate blue and red. Headings in red., and Binding: Nineteenth century, England. Light brown leather, gold-tooled. Gilt edges. Rebacked. Title on spine: "Alexander de Villa Dei Doctrinale. MS: In Memb". Bound for Henry Drury by C. Lewis in 1820.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Alexander, de Villa Dei.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin language, Grammar, Latin poetry, Medieval and modern, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript fragment on parchment, containing verses 719-781 and 1024-1083 of Alexander de Villa Dei's Doctrinale
Description:
In Latin., Layout: single columns of 30 lines each., Script: gothica textualis rotunda., and Decoration: rubricated. Paraph marks in alternating red and blue ink; two-line initials in contrasting red and blue ink.
