Virtues and vices, exempla

Description

Title: Virtues and vices, exempla
Published / Created: [between 1400 and 1425]
Publication Place: Northern Italy
Abstract: Manuscript on paper (coarse, thick) of 1) Commentary on selections from Seneca the Elder, Controversiae, beginning imperfectly in I.3. 2) 300 exempla. 3) Gualterus Angelicus, Fabulae. 4) More than 100 extracts about the Virgin Mary, and other topics. 5) Extracts about virtues and vices derived primarily from Gregory the Great, Dialogi. 6) Exempla drawn from Walter Burley, De vita et moribus philosophorum. Arts. 7-18: collection of epitaphs
Description: In Latin.
Watermarks, in gutter: similar to Briquet Monts 11854 and unidentified mountain (?).
Script: Written by a single scribe in semi-cursive gothic bookhand, above top line. Arts. 8-18 added by one or more contemporary hands.
2-line plain initials, paragraph marks and headings, in red, throughout; some marginalia in red.
Folio 151 damaged, with loss of text.
Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy (?). Limp vellum case made from a document; text not legible, but docketing note visible under ultra-violet light on upper cover: "N. 167".
Provenance: Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1953 by Thomas E. Marston.
Extent: ff. i + 151 + i : 216 x 145 (165 x 100-115) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: paper ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Burlaeus, Gualterus, 1275-1345?
Gregory I, Pope, approximately 540-604.
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint.
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 55 B.C.-approximately 39 A.D.
Subject (Topic): Conduct of life
Epitaphs
Exempla
Manuscripts, Medieval
Scholia
Subjects: Burlaeus, Gualterus, 1275-1345?
Gregory I, Pope, approximately 540-604
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 55 B.C.-approximately 39 A.D.
Conduct of life > Early works to 1800
Epitaphs
Exempla
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Scholia
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Virtues and Vices, Exempla. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.