Summulae naturalium
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Description
- Title
- Summulae naturalium
- Creator
- Venetus, Paulus
- Contributor
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Aristotle
Augustinians
Venetus, Paulus - Published / Created
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Publication Place
- France,
- Abstract
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Manuscript on paper of Summulae naturalium, composed in 1408 by Paulus Nicolettus Venetus O.E.S.A. (1369/72-1429).
- Description
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Binding: Nineteenth century, England. Blind-tooled brown goatskin with the same gold-tooled title on the spine and both covers: "Summule Naturalium/ Paulus de Venetiis/ M. S. 1373". Bound by Riviere (London) before 1881. Red edges.
Brittle. Acidic ink damage with some loss of text.
Decorated title page, f. 1r, with border, in black and red ink composed of various decorative devices: in the upper margin a bar border with a central semicircle flanked by stylized scrolls in black and red. In the outer margin, a roundel, black with red and black frame, filled with a flower of 6 petals in red; the roundel flanked by stylized scrolls. In center of lower margin a medallion framed in narrow black and red bands containing a flaming heart pierced by an arrow and an open book, also flanked by stylized scrolls. Numerous decorated initials, 30- to 4-line, black and red with interior designs of lozenges, small flowers, and wavy lines of paper ground. Plain initials and paragraph marks in red. Guide letters for rubricator throughout.
Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1953 by Thomas E. Marston.
Script: Written by several scribes in humanistic cursive script with gothic features, below top line; inital words of each section in gothic bookhand.
Watermarks, obscured by text: similar to Harlfinger Chapeau 17 and unidentified ladder.
Worm-eaten; some minor loss of text. - Extent
- ff. ii + 171 + ii : paper ; 331 x 225 (229 x 145) mm.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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Latin
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Marston MS 32
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Format
- mixed material
- Genre
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Annotations
Decorated initials
Manuscripts
Marginalia
Rubrics - Material
- paper
- Resource Type
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Subject (Name)
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Aristotle
Augustinians
Venetus, Paulus - Subject (Topic)
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Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Latin literature, Medieval and modern
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Physics--Early works to 1800
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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Paulus Venetus, Summulae Naturalium. 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 32.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9806071
- Object ID (OID)
- 11378986
- More Information
- https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/pre1600.mars032.htm