Signa loquendi: manual of sign language

Description

Title: Signa loquendi: manual of sign language
Published / Created: [between 1300 and 1400]
Publication Place: Germany
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of Signa loquendi, a manual of sign language
Description: In Latin.
Script: main text copied by a single hand in Gothica Cursiva Antiquior Libraria.
Paragraph marks and stroking of majuscules in red. Red plain 1-line versals and one 3-line initial of the same type.
Binding: S. XIX binding: red morocco over cardboard, the covers decorated with blind-tooled, partly silver fillets. Turn-ins gold-tooled. Printed paper pastedowns with brown and blue geometric pattern in the style of textile. Spine blind-tooled with gold-tooled title “DE SIGNIS MONACHORVM”.
Provenance: Collection of Nicolas Yemeniz, silk-manufacturer at Lyons (1783-1871); his bookplate, in the form of an antique coin with a lion and the inscription “LVG/DVN” on its recto and on the reverse the monogram “YEMENIZ”; sale of this collection, Paris, 1867, lot 2955 (cutting from the sale catalogue pasted on the first flyleaf r). Collection Stoll; engraved bookplate without inscription, showing in a baroque cartouche the front view of a sailing-ship. Purchased from Bernard Quaritch on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
Extent: ff. 18 : 170 x 135 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval Germany 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment and paper ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Topic): Manuscripts, Medieval
Sign language
Subjects: Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Sign language
Germany > 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Signa Loquendi. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.