Commentarii in epistolas Senecae
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Description
- Title
- Commentarii in epistolas Senecae
- Creator
- Barzizza, Gasparino, ca. 1360-1431
- Contributor
- Seneca, Lucius Annaeus,--ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D
- Published / Created
- [ca. 1450]
- Publication Place
- Northern Italy,
- Abstract
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Manuscript on paper (polished) of Gasparino Barzizza, Commentary on Epistolae morales ad Lucilium, 65-124 only.
- Description
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Binding: Fifteenth century, Italy. Parchment stays are adhered to inner and outer conjugate leaves of quires. Original wound sewing on three tawed skin, slit straps laid in channels on the outside of beech boards. The endbands, which are wanting, were sewn on tawed skin cores laid in grooves and nailed or held in place by the bosses; they were tied down through a tawed skin spine lining. Covered in sheepskin, originally brick red, with the surface now badly rubbed and shedding. Corner tongues. Blind-tooled with an X in concentric frames. Four leaf-shaped catches with three flowers on each on the lower board, one wanting; the upper board cut in for two kermes pink straps attached with star-headed nails. Five flower-shaped bosses on each board and the trace of a chain attachment at the tail of the lower one.
Illuminated initial, f. 1r, 8-line, blue with white highlights and burnished gold on gold ground with stylized foliage in green and dark red with yellow highlights. Terminals ending in foliage serifs, red, green with yellow highlights, and gold balls with hairline extensions. Numerous pen and ink initials, 3-line, alternate red and bright blue with penwork designs of the other color extending along margin.
Purchased from Enzo Ferrajoli through Nicolas Rauch of Geneva in 1958 by L. C. Witten, who sold it the same year to Thomas E. Marston.
Script: Written in gothic cursive with humanistic features by a single scribe, above top line.
Watermarks: similar to Briquet Tour 15909 and Piccard Turm II.617. - Extent
- ff. ii + 340 + ii : paper ; 335 x 230 (205 x 123) mm.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been partially digitized.
- Language
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Latin
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Marston MS 168
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Format
- text
- Genre
- Manuscripts
- Material
- paper
- Resource Type
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Subject (Name)
- Seneca, Lucius Annaeus,--ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D
- Subject (Topic)
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Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Latin literature
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Scholia
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
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Gasparino Barzizza, Commentarii in Epistolas Senecae. 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 168.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9811456
- Object ID (OID)
- 10269860
- More Information
- https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/pre1600.mars168.htm
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