Manuscript on parchment of Guarino of Verona, 1) Regulae grammaticales. 2) De orthographia. 3) Carmina differentialia
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in humanistic bookhand, below top line; marginal annotations in humanistic cursive., One illuminated initial of poor quality, f. 1r, 11-line, purple with white filigree on gold and blue ground; filled with a stylized flower red and green with white filigree, upper terminal extending into pen-and-ink inkspray with gold balls and a mauve flower in upper border; pen-and-ink flourish with gold balls, ending in a bird's head, mauve, green and blue. Plain initials and paragraph marks alternate in blue and red; headings in red. Arms of the Valaresso family of Venice in lower border (azure, 3 bars gemelles or); partially effaced arms of Cardinal Bessarion in outer margin (azure, a cross botonny gules, a chief or; crest, cardinal's hat and crozier)., and Binding: Nineteenth century (?). Rigid vellum case. Remains of a brick red label.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Guarino, Veronese, 1374-1460.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Language and languages, Orthography and spelling, Latin language, Medieval and modern, Grammar, Latin poetry, Medieval and modern, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Colophon: [?] Adest ... opusculi fiuts ... Impressii London, per wynandum de wrode commoratem in vico nucupato (the fletestrete) sub intersignio Solis. Anno incarngtionis Dominice. M.CCCCC. XI. die vero XII. Augusti., Signatures: A-Y8-4, Z8, (I4, i8, AA-FF4-8, GG5., Gothic type, with tripartite device on t.p. (McKerrow's no. 19), Printed also under title: Hortus vocabulorum., and Latin-English dictionary, in double-columns, based largely on the ma Medulla grammatice; both ascribed by Bale to Galfridus Grammaticus (or Anglicus)--cf. also Dict. of nat. biog., and Encyc. brit. (under Dictionaries).
Publisher:
ac in uibe in parrochis sacte brigide (in the fletestrete) ad signu solis moia trahetem
Subject (Topic):
Latin language, Latin language, Medieval and modern, English, English language, and Latin
