Directorium iuris, etc.

Description

Title: Directorium iuris, etc.
Creator: Petrus Quesvel
Contributor: Quesvel, Petrus
Published / Created: s. XIV^^med [ca. 1350]
Publication Place: France [?]
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment (rough, poorly prepared) of Petrus Quesvel, Directorium iuris. With Eleven short blessings at Easter for meat, cheese, bread, salt, and lard, added in the 15th century.
Description: Binding: Twentieth century. Brown calf over wooden boards, with the leather sewn around the endbands.
Part of outer column of f. 189 cut off, no loss of text.
Red and blue split initials, 18- and 16-line, with elaborate penwork designs and plain full border in red and blue mark beginning of Books 1 and 2 (ff. 1r, 91r); smaller initial with partial border at beginning of Books 3 and 4 (ff. 191r, 297r) and for the two parts of art. 3 (ff. 428r, 439r). Numerous initials, 5- to 2-line, alternate blue with red flourishes and vice versa. Running titles in red and blue, paragraph marks alternate red and blue. Notes to rubricator, but rubrics never supplied. Initial strokes and underlining, in red, for arts. 2 and 3.
Script: Written by a single scribe in a hasty cursive schoolhand.
Extent: ff. i + 448 + i : parchment ; 329 x 248 (260 x 198) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been partially digitized.
Language: Latin

Format: text
Genre: Annotations
Inhabited initials
Manuscripts
Marginalia
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Name): Quesvel, Petrus
Subject (Topic): Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Law, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Scholia

Access: Public
Rights: The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Citation: Directorium Iuris, etc. 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, MS 429.

Orbis Record: 9751785
Object ID (OID): 2052957
More Information: https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/pre1600.ms429.htm