De legendis gentilium libris

Description

Title: De legendis gentilium libris
Creator: Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, approximately 329-379
Published / Created: [between 1200 and 1599]
Publication Place: Italy
Abstract: Manuscript on vellum and paper of Saint Basil of Caesarea, De Legendis Gentilium Libris. Bound with various treatises on grammar and rhetoric, including works of Constantinus Lascaris, Georgios Choeroboskos, Manuel the Rhetorician, Theodorus Prodromus, Maximus Planudes, Corinthus, Phrynichus, and Tryphon, and several literary texts, including the Aurea carmina of Pythagoras, Hymni Orphici, Epistolae of Michael Apostolios and Synesius Cyrenaeus, and the Dialogus of Theophylactus Simocatta, and a printed text: Porphyrius, Liber Homericarum quaestionum, Rome, 1518
Description: In Latin.
Some sections rubricated; astronomical and astrological tables at end.
Binding: Brown morocco over wooden boards; clasps missing. The printed text, which is not foliated, is bound between ff. 454 and 455. It is missing the final page of the first quire (Cf. Gfp 83. n518).
Provenance: Purchased from Edwin Engelberts, 10 April 1973, with funds from the E.J. Beinecke Legacy.
Extent: ff. 664 : 206 x 148 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Digitization Note: Foliation errors throughout.
Language: Latin

Genre: Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval Italy
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: vellum and paper ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, approximately 329-379.
Subject (Topic): Classical literature
Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Fathers of the church
Grammar, Comparative and general
Manuscripts, Medieval
Rhetoric
Language and languages
Grammars
Subjects: Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, approximately 329-379
Classical literature
Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Fathers of the church
Grammar, Comparative and general > Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Rhetoric > Early works to 1800
Italy
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Language and languages > Grammars > Early works to 1800

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Citation: Saint Basil of Caesarea, De Legendis Gentilium Libris. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.