On Virtues and Vices (fragment).

Description

Title: On Virtues and Vices (fragment).
Published / Created: [between 1300 and 1350].
Publication Place: Germany
Abstract: Manuscript fragment on parchment of On Virtues and Vices written as a palimpsest over an earlier illegible text from the 10th or 11th century
Description: In Latin.
Script: The upper text is written in a gothic script (littera textualis currens); the lower text is written in Caroline minuscule.
Decoration: 1-line initials are in brown and are not set apart from the text; there is a space for a 2-line initial on fol. 1r, but it has not been added; punctuated with the punctus; authorities for specific passages in the upper text are written in the outer margins.
Provenance: The fragment was used as a pastedown in the binding of another volume.
Extent: ff. 1- 2 : 112 x 103 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

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

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Citation: On Virtues and Vices (fragment). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.