Diploma

Description

Title: Diploma
Published / Created: 1477.
Publication Place: Perugia
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment (thick) of Diploma for a doctoral degree in arts and medicine from the University of Perugia, dated 5 December 1477; awarded to "Magister Firmanus lodouici de Baronibus de monte lupono prouincie marchie anchonitane diocesis firmane."
Description: In Latin.
Script: Written in a neat round gothic script, with ascenders extending far into the upper margin.
Illuminated initial, 12-line, on rectangular gold ground; initial infilled with pink flowers on blue ground, and surrounded by modest red, green, blue and orange acanthus; ground surrounded by thick black penwork decoration and three groups of three gold discs.
Staining and wear along creases where diploma was folded into eighths. Remains of guide-notes along lower edge.
Paper wrapper in which document was formerly preserved contains notes "F. U. 203" on white and blue rectangular label; "FU 711" in pencil.
Provenance: Acquired from Goldschmidt's in 1933 by the Rev. Anson Phelps Stokes, from whom it was purchased by Yale in 1956 with the Penniman Fund.
Extent: f. 1 : 255 x 576 (152 x 478) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Diplomas Italy 15th century
Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Perugia (Italy)
Subject (Topic): Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Perugia (Italy)
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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