Vita et fabulae
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Description
- Title
- Vita et fabulae
- Creator
- Aesop
- Contributor
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Bonisoli, Ognibene, ca. 1412-1474.
Rinuccio, d'Arezzo, approximately 1395- - Published / Created
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Publication Place
- Italy
- Abstract
-
Manuscript on paper of Artt. 1-6: Aesop (Aesopus, 6th cent. before C.), Vita et fabulae, Latin translation by Rinuccio da Castiglione (Rinucius Aretinus, ca. 1395-after 1456). Artt. 7-8: Aesop, Fabulae, Latin translation by Ognibene Leoniceno (Omnibonus Leonicenus, 1412-1481).
- Description
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In Latin.
Watermarks: Briquet 2472 (?); var. Briquet 7918 (?); other (scissors and scale).
Script: Copied by two hands: Section I in unusual Humanistica Cursiva Libraria with the features of Humanistica Semitextualis; Section II in Humanistica Cursiva Libraria.
Pale red headings in Section II only (the headings in Section I are in black ink). Pale red paragraph marks. 2- or 3-line pale red plain or slightly decorated initials, with guide-letters in the left margin.
Binding: Eighteenth century. Half leather over cardboard, the paper covers decorated with a lozenged pattern of black and red dots. Gold-tooled spine with brown leather title-label with gold-tooled inscription "ESOPI FABBUL. ***7". - Provenance
- Purchased 12 Oct. 1979 from Laurence Witten on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund, the Chauncey Brewster Tinker Fund and the David Wagstaff Memorial Fund.
- Extent
- ff. i + 102 + ii : 210 x 145 mm.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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Latin
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Beinecke MS 611
- Related Resource Online
- View a detailed description.
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Translations
Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library - Material
- paper ;
- Resource Type
- unspecified
- Subject (Geographic)
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Connecticut
New Haven. - Subject (Name)
- Aesop.
- Subject (Topic)
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Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Fables
Literature, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval - Subjects
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Aesop
Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Fables
Literature, Medieval > Translations
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Access And Usage Rights
- 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
- Aesop, Vita et Fabulae. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9604157
- Object ID (OID)
- 2112584
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