Vitae

Description

Title: Vitae
Creator: Plutarch
Contributor: Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444.
Published / Created: [between 1450 and 1475]
Publication Place: Italy
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of Plutarch, Vitae, translated into Latin by Leonardo Bruni
Description: In Latin.
Script: Written in an upright italic by a single scribe.
Small, 4-line, white vine initials, one to commence each work, gold, infilled with pink and green with white dots, all on a blue ground; gold dots and hairsprays.
Binding: Eighteenth century. Green goatskin with red labels on spine. Delicately gold-tooled.
Provenance: Belonged to David Wagstaff; presented to Yale in 1943 by Mrs. David Wagstaff.
Extent: ff. ii + 188 + ii : 223 x 153 (146 x 90) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Rome
Subject (Name): Plutarch.
Subject (Topic): Biography
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
History
Subjects: Plutarch
Biography > To 500
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Rome > History
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Plutarch, Vitae. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.