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- Creator:
- Virgil
- Published / Created:
- [between 1350 and 1360]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1067
- Image Count:
- 94
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Virgil, Aeneis, in an Italian prose abridgement by Andrea Lancia
- Description:
- In Italian., Script: copied by a single hand writing Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria/Formata (Rotunda). Stroking of the majuscules. 2-line flourished initials with simple penwork at the opening of the chapters. More elaborate flourished initials, 2 to 7 lines, at the opening of the Books. On f. 1r an 8-line littera duplex., and Publius Vergilius Maro (70-19 B.C.), Aeneis, abridgement in Italian prose by Andrea Lancia (c. 1280-c. 1360). This Florentine notary and Dante commentator wrote various Italian translations or adaptations of classical Latin texts. There are occasionally interlinear glosses, more often marginal notes. Pointing hands.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Lancia, Andrea, ca. 1280-ca. 1360. and Virgil.
- Subject (Topic):
- Epic poetry, Latin, Literature, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Aeneis
