Doctrinale

Description

Title: Doctrinale
Creator: Alexander, de Villa Dei
Published / Created: [between 1400 and 1425]
Publication Place: Northern Italy,
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of Alexander of Villa Dei, Doctrinale.
Description: Binding: Nineteenth century, England. Light brown leather, gold-tooled. Gilt edges. Rebacked. Title on spine: "Alexander de Villa Dei Doctrinale. MS: In Memb". Bound for Henry Drury by C. Lewis in 1820.
One historiated initial, f. 1r, 6-line, pink, red, and green with white filigree on gold ground thinly edged in black, with a half-length portrait of a teacher in red robes and a red cap holding a book, against a blue ground with white filigree. In the lower margin arms of the Pesaro family of Venice (per pale indented or and azure), framed by scrolling acanthus, green, red, blue, and pink. Plain initials and paragraph marks both alternate blue and red. Headings in red.
Script: Written in round gothic bookhand by a single scribe, below top line.
Extent: ff. i + i + 54 + i + i : parchment ; 264 x 184 (162 x 95) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Format: mixed material
Genre: coats of arms (AAT)
Grammars
Languages (Study discipline)
Manuscripts
Marginalia
Poems
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Topic): Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Latin language--Grammar
Latin poetry, Medieval and modern
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Alexander of Villa Dei, Doctrinale. 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 64.

Orbis Record: 9807335
Object ID (OID): 11403200
More Information: https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/pre1600.mars064.htm