Manipulus florum, etc

Description

Title: Manipulus florum, etc
Creator: Thomas, of Ireland, ca. 1265-ca. 1329
Published / Created: s. XV^^ [15th century]
Publication Place: Italy
Abstract: Manuscript on paper of 1) Excerpts (De prudentia, De fortitudine, De continentia, De iustitia) from Martin of Braga, Formula honestae vitae, a work often attributed incorrectly to Seneca. 2) Salomonis dicta; excerpts concerning wisdom, including quotes from Seneca, Book of Wisdom, etc. 3) Thomas of Ireland, Manipulus florum. 4) Excerpts from Petrarch, De remediis utriusque fortunae. 5) Isidore, Chronicon.
Description: Binding: Nineteenth century. Quarter bound in brown, diced calf with a gold-tooled title on spine: "Miscellanea di Seneca, Petrarcha e d'altri". Orange, leather-grained paper sides. Rebacked.
Script: Written by a single scribe in various styles of italic script; heavy annotations by the scribe and later hands.
Several crude initials: f. 1r, 4-line gold initial on blue ground, infilled red, and 3-line red initial on gold ground; on f. 2r, 5-line red initial on blue ground; f. 72v, 4-line red initial on green ground with some flourishes and gold dots, infilled blue. Initials (2- and 1-line), names of authors (added in margins), paragraph marks and headings in pale red.
Watermarks: similar to Briquet Huchet 7693.
Extent: ff. iv + 285 + iv : paper ; 215 x 145 (ca. 127 x 80) mm.
Extent of Digitization: Completely digitized
Language: Latin

Format: text
Genre: Manuscripts
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Name): Thomas,--of Ireland,--ca. 1265-ca. 1329
Subject (Topic): Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Classical literature
Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Philosophy--Early works to 1800

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Citation: Shailor, B. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MS 380. and Thomas of Ireland, Manipulus Florum, etc. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Orbis Record: 9780507
OID: 2005490
More Information: https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/pre1600.ms380.htm