Vita Caroli Zeni

Description

Title: Vita Caroli Zeni
Creator: Zeno, Jacopo, 1417-1481
Published / Created: [ca. 1458]
Publication Place: Italy
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of Jacopo Zeno, Vita Caroli Zeni. With a dedicatory preface to Pope Pius II. This manuscript is of special importance because it contains the complete work
Description: In Latin.
Script: Written in humanistic script by Franciscus de Tianis of Pistoia.
On f. 1r, a foliage border which includes hares, stork, vase, and arms of the Piccolomini family (argent, a cross azur with 5 crescents or; surmounted by keys in saltire argent and a papal tiara; supported by a pair of angels). Eleven elaborate initials, 11- to 7-line, in gold, red, blue, and green entwined with foliage. The style of decoration is decidedly Roman.
Binding: Eighteenth century. Brownish-red goatskin, gold-tooled; pale green and gold, Dutch gilt paper boards.
Provenance: Purchased by William Loring Andrews who presented it to Yale in 1894.
Extent: ff. ii + 192 + i : 271 x 177 (177 x 106) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: Beinecke MS 2
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Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Zeno, Carlo, 1334-1418.
Zeno, Jacopo, 1417-1481.
Subject (Topic): Biography
Crusades
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Zeno, Carlo, 1334-1418
Zeno, Jacopo, 1417-1481
Biography > Middle Ages, 500-1500
Crusades > 13th-15th centuries
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Jacopo Zeno, Vita Caroli Zeni. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.