Confutationes

Description

Title: Confutationes
Creator: Valla, Lorenzo, 1407-1457
Contributor: Valla, Lorenzo,--1407-1457
Published / Created: [ca. 1460-70]
Publication Place: Rome,
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of Lorenzo Valla, Confutationes. 1) Antidotum in Poggium, Books I-III. 2) Antidotum in Poggium, Book IV. 3) Dialogus in Poggium, Book I. 4) Confutatio prior in Benedictum Morandum.
Description: Acquired in 1954 from C. A. Stonehill by Thomas E. Marston.
Binding: ca. 1900, England. Red goatskin case with gold-tooled title "Valla In Poggium MS" and turn-ins. Gilt edges. Bound by Zaehnsdorf (London, 1842-1930).
Illuminated page (f. 1r) with partial border in outer and lower margins, white vine-stem ornament on predominately green and red ground, with some blue and white dots, framed by thin gold bars. In lower border, unidentified mutilated coat of arms, against blue ground. Seven illuminated initials, 4- to 2-line, gold, against blue, green and red grounds with white vine-stem ornament and white dots. Headings and marginal annotations in pale red.
Script: Written in a round humanistic script by a single scribe, above top line.
Extent: ff. ii + 174 + ii : parchment ; 213 x 133 (141 x 87) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Format: text
Genre: Annotations
Decorated initials
Manuscripts
Marginalia
Material: parchment
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Name): Valla, Lorenzo,--1407-1457
Subject (Topic): Dialogues, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

Access: Public
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Citation: Lorenzo Valla, Confutationes. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Shailor, B. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Marston MS 81.

Orbis Record: 9807639
Object ID (OID): 10269854
More Information: https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/pre1600.mars081.htm