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1. Derivationes
- Creator:
- Uguccione, da Pisa, Bishop of Ferrara, d. 1210
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1250]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 40
- Image Count:
- 350
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Uguccione Pisano (d. 1210), Derivationes
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Part I (ff. 1r-28v): Written by a single scribe in round gothic bookhand, below top line. Part II (ff. 29r-169r): Written in small gothic bookhand, above top line. Many sections traced over in darker ink., Part I: Divided initial, blue, 8-line, with intricate red pen flourishes extending down inner margin, f. 1r. Plain red initials, 2-line, to mark new letter of the alphabet; first letter of each word in table stroked with red; more important words preceded by paragraph mark. Part II: Blue or red initials (some divided), 20- to 7-line, with pen flourishes in red and/or blue, for prologue (art. 5) and each letter of the alphabet. On ff. 29r, 43v, 60r: a single dragon-like grotesque, in red and blue, extends up or down the margin. Initials, 2-line, alternate red and blue with plain pen flourishing in opposite color., Text has faded and flaked throughout., and Binding: Fourteenth century (?), Italy. Original sewing on four tawed skin, slit straps laid in channels on outside of beech boards and nailed. A beaded, natural color endband. Covered in kermes pink tawed skin with an X within a rectangular frame drawn on it. Traces of five round bosses on each side and four truncated diamond-shaped catches on the lower board; the upper board cut in for the straps. Rebacked.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Uguccione, da Pisa, Bishop of Ferrara, d. 1210.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin language, Etymology, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholasticism
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Derivationes
